Court Opinion

ID: 9832918
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:17:51.566396+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:55.296837
License: Public Domain

On Appellees’ Motion for Rehearing.
Appellees complain in their motion for a rehearing' that we erred' in holding that their threatened .suits were based alone upon the wrongful and fraudulent acts of *884the appellants. We did not so hold, but accepted appellees’ statement as to their suits, as follows:
“Appellees’ claims are based (1) upon fraud, for the memberships of The Central & The Benevolent have been in effect stolen; and (2) The Texas having knowingly received said memberships — being the assets — is liable for the liabilities. In the alternative, if the Texas is not liable, then the officers who perpetrated such fraud are liable.”
Nor did we undertake to pass upon the suit of any defendant who based his claim alone upon a policy issued by the Texas Benevolent Association, or upon the payment of assessments to the Texas Benevolent Association under such circumstances as would show that such a defendant’s deceased had been considered as being insured by the Texas Benevolent Association. In fact, appellants were permitted to take a nonsuit as to several such defendants. •The motion for a rehearing is overruled.
■ Overruled.