Case Name: SOVEREIGN CAMP, W. O. W., v. HAY
Court: Texas Courts of Civil Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-02-12
Citations: 227 S.W. 1111
Docket Number: No. 8458
Parties: SOVEREIGN CAMP, W. O. W., v. HAY.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 227
Pages: 1111–1111

Head Matter:
SOVEREIGN CAMP, W. O. W., v. HAY.
(No. 8458.)
(Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Dallas.
Feb. 12, 1921.)
Appeal and error &wkey;>l002 — Finding on sharply contested issue not disturbed.
Finding of jury on sharply contested issue will not be disturbed on appeal.
Appeal from District Court, Limestone County; A. M. Blackman, Judge.
Suit by Irene Hay against the Sovereign Camp, Woodmen of the World. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
W. T. Jackson, of Groesbeck, and Gresham & Miller, of Dallas, for appellant.
C. S. Bradley and J. E. Bradley, both of Groesbeck, for appellee.

Opinion:
RAINEX, C. J.
Appellee brought this suit against appellant to. recover on a benefit certificate issued by appellant to Ben F. Hay; appellee, as the surviving wife, being the beneficiary therein named.
The issue was whether or not Ben F. Hay was suspended from the order for the nonpayment of dues on January 1, 1919, while sick, and therefore was not a member of the order, and said benefit had lapsed before suit was filed. This issue was the only one presented to the jury, which was sharply contested on the, trial and was found in favor of appellee. The jury having found that the dues of Ben F. Hay had been regularly paid, it follows that before Hay died or ever became sick he was never suspended and never lost his membership in said order, and his wife never lost her right to the certificate, which was payable to her.
No error is found in the record brought up to us, and the judgment is affirmed.