Lamar v. Bankers Health & Life Ins.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error he says: “The record presents only one question for consideration by this court: Was the demand in writing in the plaintiff’s petition, 'with this she puts herself upon the country,’ sufficient in law to enable her cause to be tried by a jury.” As this point seems never to have been passed upon by either of the appellate courts of this State, we have made a rather exhaustive examination of text-books, encyclopedias, and reports for some precedent. The case nearest to this one that we have found is that of…