Life Ass'n of America v. Goode
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Richard Maltbie. The statement of the nature and result of the suit below-made in appellant’s brief is given: March 1, 1879, suit was brought in the district court of Grayson county against the Life Association of America by F. M. Goode to rescind two contracts of life insurance for fraud in their procurement and recover one thousand six hundred and thirty dollars premiums paid with interest.
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Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Richard Maltbie. The statement of the nature and result of the suit below-made in appellant’s brief is given: March 1, 1879, suit was brought in the district court of Grayson county against the Life Association of America by F. M. Goode to rescind two contracts of life insurance for fraud in their procurement and recover one thousand six hundred and thirty dollars premiums paid with interest. Writ of attachment was sued out and levied upon lands in the State. Judgment was rendered against said association, from which it appealed and the case…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Chief Justice.
Appeal from Grayson county, on March 1, 1879, the appellee brought an action against the Life Association of America, a corporation, chartered under the laws of the State of Missouri, to recover sixteen hundred and thirty dollars, with interest, which he claimed to have paid in the corporation on policy of insurance issued to him in the year 1872.
He based his claim on averments that the corporation was insolvent at the time it issued the policy to him, and so continued until it was dissolved by a judgment rendered by a circuit court in the State of Missouri, on November…
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