Simmang v. Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District in an appeal from Bexar County. Simmang, having a judgment against Geise in the District Court, sued out garnishment against the insurance company. The latter admitted liability to Geise, who made himself a party and defended on the ground that the property burned was exempt. Simmang had judgment, which was reversed on appeal by Geise. Appellee then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
In the District Court of Bexar County, 45th District, Frank Simmang recovered a judgment against Otto Geise for about $600. The Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company owed Geise on a fire policy $341.20, which was not contested by the company. Simmang sued out in the District Court of the 45th District of Bexar County a writ of garnishment against the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company, calling upon it to answer what it was indebted to Otto Geise, and the company answered stating the amount due. Otto Geise filed a plea of intervention in which he claimed that the sum due him upon the policy of…
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