Legal Opinion

Winter Park Telephone Co. v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided April 7, 1950No. 12776PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

The Court below granted a summary judgment in favor of the Plaintiff without making any express findings of fact or conclusions of law.

We are of the opinion that this case is not one that readily lends itself to such a summary disposition.

The facts and circumstances, although in no material dispute as to their actuality, reveal aspects from which inconsistent hypotheses might reasonably be drawn and as to which the minds of reasonable men might differ.

The drawing of inferences and the acceptance of hypotheses arising out of the facts are ordinarily attributes that the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Kennedy v. Silas Mason Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1948

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Empire Electronics Co., Inc. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1962
  2. Merrill v. Duffy Reed Construction Co.Idaho Supreme Court · 1960
  3. Bob Hindes and Wife, Dorothy Lee v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1964
  4. Steccone v. Morse-Starrett Products Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1951
  5. Livingston v. Citizen's Utility, Inc.Arizona Supreme Court · 1971

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