The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-03
MRS. BETTE S. PARRISH
LOSES HER SUIT.
Court DECLINES to Require United
Commercial Travellers to Pay
Policy On Death of Eugene
vi. Parrish, Jr.

According to a decision handed
down yesterday afternoon in the
United tSates Circuit Court of APP
peals. Mrs. Bette S. Parrish, of Flu
wanna County, cannot recover on a
$1,000 accident policy held by her son,
Eugene NJ. Parrish. an alleged suicide,
carried in the United Commercial
Travellers.
The young man, who was travel
ing salesman for the E. b. Taylor Com
pany, of this city, was found dead in
a Bristol Hotel in April. 1911. with a
pistol wound in his temple.
Mrs Parrish was made beneficiary
in this policy, and she brought suit
for the amount on the plea that her
son accidentally met death. Evidence
was intI oduced showing that her son
was in apparently happy state OF mind
at the time of his death
Other opinions handed down in the
court yesterday follow:
No. 1394-Coal and Coke Railway
Company. plaintiff in error. VS.. David
+. Deal, defendant in error: error TO
the District Court at Parkersburg, w.
Va. Opinion by Judge Pritchard. AZ
firmed.
No. 1897. II Lane & Co. and
John NJ. Tallman, appellants vs.. Maple
Cotton Mills, ct al appellees; appeal
from the District Court at Charleston.
S. G. On rehearing. Opinion by Judge
Woods. Reversed
No. 1853. H. Lane & Co, ap-
pellant, VS.. Hamer Cotton Mills, ct
al, appellees; appeal from the Dis
trict Court at Charleston, S. c. On
rehearing. Opinion by Judge Woods.
X ,versed.
No 1364--John NJ Tailman. appel
liant VS., Dillon Cotton Mills, ct al, ap-
pellees: appeal from the District Court
at Charleston, s. c. On rehearing.
Opinion by Judge Woods. Reversed.
No. 1367-Clyde Steamship Com
pany plaintiff in error, VS.. w. b.
Whaley. A. Hasell Hayward, admins
traitor and Fannie H. Champion ad-
ministratrix of the estate of A Has
sci Hayward. deceased, defendants in
error; @ersur 70 the DIssrtrt Court az
Charleston, s. c. Opinion by Judge
Woods. Reversed.
No. 136S-The Peninsula Bank, of
Williamsburg, Va. the Bank OF Will
Harrisburg, Inc, and William A. Be-
Earth. appellants, vs.. Edward w. Wo;-
colt, r. +. Liphart and NJ. o. Iackey,
trustees of the bankruptcy estate of
r. II. Richardson, r. X. Richardson,
r. V. Richardson and H. s.. Richard
son, partners trading as r. H. Rich
ardson 4 Sons, and as individuals, and
William Fl. Hayden. Jr., appellees. APP
peal from the District Court at Nor
folk. In bankruptcy. Opinion by
Jude Woods. Modified.
No. 1S7S-Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, appellants, VS.. Edwin
Thatcher, appellee: appeal from the
District Court at Baltimore, Md, Per
curam opinion. Affirmed.
No. 13SS--John Halfpcnny and r.
c. Hamilton, late partners trading as
Halfpenns g. Hamilton. appellants. VS..
A. G. Miller, appellee: appeal from the
District Court at Charleston. w. Va.
Opinion by Judge Woods. Affirmed.
No. 1881. c. Shumpert. trustee in
bankruptcy of the estate of the Lion
Furniture Company. bankrupt. appel
liant, VS.. the National State Bank, Of
Columbia, s. c., F.. G. Cook and II. X.
Cook, appellees: appeal from the Dis
trict Court at Charleston, S. G. In
bankruptcy. Opinion by Judge Woods.
Affirmed.
No. 1391--Constan II. Christopoulo.
alias Constan II. Christodoulo. plaintiff
, in error, VS.. the United States OF
America. defendant in error; error to
the District Court at Charleston, S.
firmed.
No. 1401-Ela F. Kirkland and
George s. Kirkland. plaintiffs in err
ror, VS.. Robert II. Knox, and George
g. Lewis, as receivers of the Hilton
Dodge Lumber Company, defendants
in error; error to the District Court
at Charleston, s. c. Opinion by
Judge Knapp. Affirmed.
No. 1405--Fannie w. Higgin-.
D., No via ~
Nancy ]. Bright, appellant, VS.. Jesse
Boggs, Walker Hill and Austin Hill,
ct al, appellees; appeal from the Dis
trict Court at Richmond. Va. Argued
| by Mr. William w. Crump and Mr..
C. V. Meredith, of Richmond, Va. for
, the appellant. and by Mr.. A. L. Holla-
day and Mr.. NJ. NJ. Gillian, OF Rich
mond, Va. for the appellees. and sub
| mitted.