Legal Opinion

William H. Hughes v. Great American Indemnity Company

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided September 14, 1956No. 16026PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in the District Court rendered pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of appellee Great American Indemnity Company, insurer of the automobile of William M. House, who drove his car into the back of the stopped car occupied by William H. Hughes and his family, the appellants.1 About three minutes before that accident the Hughes car had been in head-on collision with the car of one Murray, and both cars were standing in the road when House drove his car into the rear of the Hughes car. The Court below charged the jury that it would be…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. IvesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  2. Schulz v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
  3. Lowry v. Seaboard Airline R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1948
  4. Banks v. Associated Indemnity CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1947
  5. Rhea v. DaigleLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1954

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Elaine Jones v. GriffithCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
  2. Berkshire Mutual Insurance Company v. Richard G. Moffett, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
  3. Canal Barge Co. v. GriffithCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
  4. Gordon W. Cooke v. Orange Belt District Council of Painters No. 48, an Unincorporated Association and Labor Organization, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1976
  5. Service Lines, Inc. v. MitchellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1967

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