Reserve Life Insurance Company v. Shelton

O’QUINN, Justice.

This cause now on appeal originated in justice court when appellee sued appellant insurance company on an indemnity claim, resulting from a broken collarbone, in the sum of $30, the amount scheduled under the policy of insurance.

The lawsuit assumed larger proportions and greater significance when the insurance company answered by written pleadings in the nature of a plea to the jurisdiction and general denial.

The basis of the plea to the jurisdiction, both in justice court and in the county court at law, is that another claim under the same policy, and between the same…