Legal Opinion

Hubert Wesley Driggers v. Business Men's Assurance Company of America

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided February 24, 1955No. 15160_1PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a summary judgment entered in an action described by appellee as simply an attempt to retry a case finally adjudged against the appellant in Driggers v. Business Men’s Assurance Company of America, 5 Cir., 1952, 199 F.2d 911. The present action was filed on February 12, 1954.

With a few changes in the amounts claimed to be due and owing and for which judgment is demanded, the complaint in the present action is almost verbatim the same as the complaint in the former case. In each complaint the plaintiff sues on the same health and accident policy issued…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Cromwell v. County of SacSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  2. United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950
  3. Southern Pacific Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  4. Blair v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
  5. Angel v. BullingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1947

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. James N. Lewis v. George Brautigam, I. Ray Mills, Dayton Blackford and Thomas J. KellyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
  2. Sol A. Dann, John H. Neville and Louise A. Turek v. Studebaker-Packard Corporation, Harold E. Churchill, Hugh J. Ferry, and A. J. PortaCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1961
  3. Hyman v. RegensteinCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
  4. Dotschay v. National Mutual Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
  5. Eduardo Denis v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1986

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