(DOWNLOAD) "Whitaker v. Coleman" by United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Whitaker v. Coleman
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 06, 1940
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
Description
The first of the above numbered causes was a suit brought against the owner and the driver of an automobile for death damages. The second was a suit for declaratory judgment, that it was not liable as insurer, brought by the insurer on a policy covering the owner as named insured and "any person while using the automobile * * * with the permission of the named insured." Appellant was plaintiff in the first, defendant in the second, of the above numbered causes, and in both cases he seasonably made his demand for a jury. The insurance company as the plaintiff in the declaratory judgment suit and as manager of the defense in the damage suit, invoked the summary procedure of Rule 56, Rules of Civil Procedure for District Courts, 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c, and after a hearing in which plaintiff proffered statements of the driver, on the tendered issue that he was an "insured", obtained a summary judgment first in the declaratory judgment suit in favor of itself and next in the damage suit in favor of the defendant owner.