John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Bennett

Mr. Judge Hickman

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

It is. believed that the statement of the case can best be followed by employing here the designations given the parties in the trial court, wherein Tom R. Bennett, two of his three brothers and his three sisters, children of I. M. Bennett, deceased, and his surviving widow, Mrs. Dora E. Bennett, were plaintiffs and John Hancock Mutual Life Insuance Company was defendant. The suit is an action of trespass to try title to 70 acres of land in Johnson County and for partition thereof. It resulted in the trial court in…