Business Men's Assur. Ass'n v. Read

The plaintiff, Katye Sue Read, instituted this suit in the county court of Wilbarger county, Tex., against the defendant, Business Men’s Assurance Association, to recover the sum of $230, with 12 per cent, penalty and attorneys’ fees, on a health insurance policy issued to the plaintiff by the defendant.

The plaintiff alleges that the policy sued on was valid and existing; that the premiums thereon had been paid according to the terms thereof; and that, among other things, under the subdivision of health indemnities, the policy stipulated, in effect, that, if sickness, directly and…