Legal Opinion

Suggs v. Travelers Insurance

Texas Supreme Court

Decided October 26, 1888No. 2565PublishedCited by 26 opinions

Error from Cass. Tried below before the Hon. W. P. McLean. The opinion gives the facts.

1Opinion of the Court

Gaines, Associate Justice.

On April 18, 1883, the defendant in error issued to T. H. Harrison a policy of insurance, by which it bound itself, upon certain conditions in case of his death by accident, to pay to his children, Davie Harrison and Maude Harrison, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars. He was accidentally killed about the first of March, 1884, and on the tenth of August, 1886, the plaintiff in error, as the next-friend of the beneficiaries, Davie and Maud Harrison, brought this suit on the policy to recover the amount named. The policy contained the following provision: “Ho…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. TrawickTexas Supreme Court · 1887
  2. Williams v. Vermont Mutual Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Vermont · 1848
  3. Merchants' Mutual Insurance v. LacroixTexas Supreme Court · 1872

3Cited by26 opinions

  1. Home Insurance v. DickSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
  2. Bartlett v. ManorIndiana Supreme Court · 1897
  3. Hefner v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New YorkCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1913
  4. Beard v. Sovereign Lodge of Woodmen of the WorldSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1922
  5. Maxwell Bros. v. Liverpool & London & Globe InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1913

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