Legal Opinion · Dissent

United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co. v. London

Texas Supreme Court

Decided March 4, 1964No. A-9601Published

1DissentCalvert, Chief Justice

The proper judgment to be entered in this case — whether to cumulate weekly payments for temporary total loss of use found by the jury to exist with respect to the left hand, the right hand and the left leg of respondent, or to allow weekly payments for only one of such temporary total disabilities — requires, primarily, interpretation of one paragraph of sec. 12 of Article 8306, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes.

At the outset I should state that I do not agree with certain interpretations heretofore given the paragraph. For example, I am convinced that its interpretation by this Court in Texas…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Southern Canal Co. v. State Board of Water EngineersTexas Supreme Court · 1958
  2. United States v. RaynorSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  3. Hargrove v. Trinity Universal InsuranceTexas Supreme Court · 1953
  4. Petroleum Casualty Co. v. SealeTexas Commission of Appeals · 1929
  5. Texas Employers' Insurance v. HolmesTexas Supreme Court · 1946

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