HOUSTON-AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. TATE

No. 3985.

358 S.W.2d 645 (1962)

HOUSTON-AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. et al., Appellants, v. Eleanor M. TATE, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Affirmed as Reformed on Remittitur May 31, 1962.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irion, Cain, Cocke & Magee, Don W. Davis, Dallas, for appellants.

Fritz & Vinson, Edward R. Vinson, Dallas, for appellee.


TIREY, Justice.

This action was brought originally by Millard C. Tate for actual and exemplary damages he claimed to have sustained to himself and to his wife because of the wrongful conduct of the appellants in seeking to enforce the provisions of a usurious contract. Before the trial his wife filed a suggestion of death stating that her husband had died and alleged that she was his surviving widow; that under his will she was named the sole beneficiary and independent...

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