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FIDELITY & CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. GRIFFIN

Civ. A. No. 2496.

178 F.Supp. 678 (1959)

FIDELITY & CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK, Plaintiff, v. Qually GRIFFIN et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Galveston Division.

May 5, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Gaius G. Gannon, Jr., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

Smith & Lehmann, M. A. Lehmann, and Weldon H. Berry, Houston, Tex., Sidney J. Brown, Rosenberg, Tex., and Walton S. Roberts, Richmond, Tex., for defendants.

CONNALLY, District Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment action in which the insurer seeks a determination of its duties and obligations under an automobile liability policy. Defendants are the insured, and third-party claimants.

Federal jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship, the insurer being a citizen of New York, and each of the defendants being a citizen of this State. The jurisdictional amount is sufficient.

The facts, largely without...

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