Sergeant v. Goldsmith Dry Goods Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Questions certified from the court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. . The appeal of Sergeant as receiver from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to his petition resulted in a reversal and remand by the Court of Civil Appeals, 159 S. W., 1036.' On motion for a new trial and to certify the questions to the Supreme Court the latter motion was granted, the former being held undetermined to await the answers of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The certificate of the honorable Court of Civil Appeals may be thus summarized:
The suit was by the appellant as the duly appointed and acting receiver of the Commercial Underwriters of San Antonio and as trustee for certain creditors of that concern, a voluntary unincorporated association for the protection of its membership against loss by fire, against thirteen hundred of its members, seeking to enforce liability in favor of (1) members of the association with claims for losses by fire under policies issued in their favor; (2) creditors of
the association for services rendered or supplies…
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