Danner v. Aetna Life Insurance Company

OPINION

LANGDON, Justice.

This appeal complains of the action of the trial court in sustaining a special exception and dismissing two causes of action which had been consolidated and in finding that Aetna, one of the appellees, was a stakeholder and entitled to attorney’s fees.

In order to clarify the problems involved on this appeal the actions taken in three separate causes of action, each filed in a different district court, are hereinafter described.

On December 19, 1967, Cause No. S1034-C was filed in the 96th District Court, Tarrant County, Texas, by Leon Danner, against the appellee, Aetna…