Home Circle Society of Goliad & Refugio Counties v. Hanley

The briefs of counsel in this case failed to reach the hands of the reporter.

GILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by G. B. Hanley, as administrator of the estate of Mrs. Irene Angerstine, deceased, against the Supreme Council of the Home Circle Society of Texas and the Home Circle Society of Goliad and Befugio Counties, to recover upon a benefit certificate issued to deceased by the last-named society and payable to her husband, J. F. Angerstine, as the beneficiary named therein.

The defendants met the allegations- by a plea to the jurisdiction of the court, on the ground that the sum…