Ex parte Pepper
Supreme Court of Alabama
Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Action by J. H. Pepper against the American Central Insurance Company. A default judgment for failure to answer interrogatories was reversed and remanded by the Court of Appeals on defendant’s appeal (9 Ala. App. 191, 62 South. 397), and plaintiff brings certiorari.
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Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Action by J. H. Pepper against the American Central Insurance Company. A default judgment for failure to answer interrogatories was reversed and remanded by the Court of Appeals on defendant’s appeal (9 Ala. App. 191, 62 South. 397), and plaintiff brings certiorari. The following is interrogatory No. 2: “Did the defendant, on the 6th day ’of March, 1912, or at any other time from the 6th day of March, 1912, up to and including the day you filed your answers to these interrogatories, belong to, or was the defendant a member of, or in any way connected with, the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
We appropriate the statement of the facts, disclosing the question, formulated by the Court of Appeals on the appeal to that court; “This Avas an action on a fire insurance policy. The complaint alleged that at the time of the making of the policy sued on, or subsequently and before the time of the trial of this cause, the defendant was a member of or in some Avay connected Avith a tariff association, or such like thing, or that the defendant had made an *287agreement or had an understanding with some other person, corporation, or association engaged in the business of insurance, as agent or…
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