Legal Opinion
United States Casualty Company v. Elmer L. Schlein
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 16, 1964No. 20884_1PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
The question in this Texas case is whether the District Court was right in holding that false testimony given but shortly retracted by the Assured did not constitute a prejudicial breach of the cooperation clause of an automobile liability policy. We hold the Court was correct and with slight modification affirm.
Indigenous to these many-cornered Donnybrooks, this controversy was waged on several fronts. It all grows out of a collision in Beaumont, Texas, on September 4, 1961, between the car owned and operated by Schlein, the Assured, and another occupied by the…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Klein v. Century LloydsTexas Supreme Court · 1955
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