Masonic Benefit Ass'n v. Simmons
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of, first district, Iiinds county. Garland G. Lyell, Esq., Special Chancellor. Simmons, administrator, the appellee, was complainant, and the benefit association, the appellant, was defendant in the court below. From a decree in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Oode 1892, § 1797, has no application to the case at bar.
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From the chancery court of, first district, Iiinds county. Garland G. Lyell, Esq., Special Chancellor. Simmons, administrator, the appellee, was complainant, and the benefit association, the appellant, was defendant in the court below. From a decree in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Oode 1892, § 1797, has no application to the case at bar. The appellant, hy the usual process, was brought into the chancery court of Hinds connty to answer an alleged indebtedness by Peter Simmons, administrator of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHouston, J.
A bill was filed by Peter Simmons, as administrator of the estate of Robert Wells, deceased, and by Mary Lewis and said Peter Simmons, as individuals and as two of decedent’s heirs, against appellant (a Mississippi corporation), alleging that said decedent, at the time of his death, February 27, 1903, held a certificate in said association, payable to the estate of said Wells; that on March 7, 1904, said Simmons was appointed administrator of same, as shown by exhibit “A,” copy of his appointment; that during his life he complied with every regulation required by said association — paying all…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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