Commercial Standard Ins. Co. v. Ebner

SPEER, Justice.

This appeal involves, principally, the construction and application of the provisions of an insurance policy issued for the purpose, among other things, to enable the owners of trucks to procure from the Railroad Commission of Texas a permit to operate such trucks on the highway as common carriers of livestock for hire, under the provisions of Article 911b, Vernon’s Anno.Civ.St, and the various sections thereof.

At all material times John Ebner and his associates were partners in the firm of Wichita Meat and Provision Company, to whom, for brevity, we shall refer as “Shippers.”…