Legal Opinion

Commonwealth Casualty & Ins. Co. v. Morris

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided October 10, 1941No. 2180PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LESLIE, Chief justice.

To avoid a multiplicity of suits against it, the Commonwealth Casualty & Insurance Company filed its petition in the County Court seeking to restrain Aaron M. Morris from prosecuting three separate suits, each demanding claims based upon and arising as benefits out of the terms of an insurance policy issued to him by the company, and indemnifying him for time lost due to disabilities resulting from sickness, accident, etc.

The trial court sustained a general demurrer to the petition, etc. That action is assigned as error.

The truth of the allegations of the petition being…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Pearlstone Mill & Elevator Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1932
  2. Standard Inv. Co. v. DowdyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1938

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. University of Texas v. MorrisTexas Supreme Court · 1961
  2. H. Rouw Co. v. Texas N. O. R. Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1953
  3. University of Texas v. MorrisTexas Supreme Court · 1961

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