Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Patton

Appellees sued appellant on a beneficiary certificate issued on the life of their father, William Thomas Patton, and recovered the judgment, from which this appeal is prosecuted.'

The only material question for our consideration relates to the death of the assured. Appellees contend that his death must be presumed from the fact that he absented himself from his home for seven years successively.

The facts are these:

Assured resided with his family, consisting of his wife and several ’minor children, in the city of Dallas and was engaged in the business of a jitney bus driver. 9n April 13,-1916,…