United Woodmen Benefit Ass'n v. Thompson

Citations

• 117 Miss. 105
• 77 So. 911

Syllabus

<p>Insurance. Benefit insurance. Liability. Sufficiency of evidence.</p> <p>In a suit against a benefit association on open account to recover a part of the benefit payable on the death of plaintiff’s mother, the policy being payable to another son, plaintiff claimed that it was understood by the deceased and her two sons that her sons would share alike in the insurance on her life; and that after her death, the attorney of plaintiff had an agreement with an alleged agent of the benefit association that the association would carry out this • understanding between deceased and her sons. The court held that under the facts as set out in the record there was no competent proof tending to show that the benefit association had ever bound itself to pay the plaintiff anything and that plaintiff was not entitled to recover.</p>