Legal Opinion
Charles Alden Dorsey, D/B/A Dorsey Insurance Agency v. State Farm Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 6, 1961No. 18799_1PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMERON, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Dorsey filed this action 1 against the three insurance companies named as appellees, for damages growing out of, or related to, the termination of his written contract under which he represented the Companies as local agent. The controlling terms of the contract exhibited with the complaint are the same as those involved in the Case action and reference is made to our decision in that case for those terms. As there, the parties agree here that the relationship created by the contract was that of independent contractor. The same right of termination was given…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Hollis E. Case v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm Fire and Casualty Company and State Farm Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- Martin-Parry Corp. v. New Orleans Fire Detection ServiceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1952
- Stephen L. Guice Co. v. PerkowskiLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1943
- Mitchell v. Shreveport Laundries, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1952
- Nabors Oil Corporation v. SamuelsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1930
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