Supreme Council of A. L. of H. v. Anderson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Wharton. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H.. Burkhart. Mamie Anderson brought suit May 5, 1883, in the district court of Wharton county, against the supreme council of the American Legion of Honor, a corporation chartered under the laws of Massachusetts, to recover $5,000, being the amount, as alleged in the petition, which appellant had agreed to pay appellee upon the death of her husband, W. J. Anderson.
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Appeal from Wharton. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H.. Burkhart. Mamie Anderson brought suit May 5, 1883, in the district court of Wharton county, against the supreme council of the American Legion of Honor, a corporation chartered under the laws of Massachusetts, to recover $5,000, being the amount, as alleged in the petition, which appellant had agreed to pay appellee upon the death of her husband, W. J. Anderson. It was alleged: 1st. That appellants were engaged in the business of life insurance, having grand and subordinate councils, one of which was located in Wharton county, and which…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
— We do not think that the agreement of counsel filed in the case, as to certain matters of evidence, was intended or had the effect to preclude the appellant from raising objections to the relevancy and competency in evidence of the particular benefit certificate in question.
This agreement, it is true, is very broad and sweeping in its terms, but cannot, we think, taking the whole matter into consideration, with reference to the then state of the pleadings of the appellee, be considered to have gone quite to that length. It was doubtless intended to shorten the case,…
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