HOUSTON FIRE & CASUALTY INS. CO. v. WALKER

No. A-4065.

260 S.W.2d 600 (1953)

HOUSTON FIRE & CASUALTY INS. CO. et al. v. WALKER.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 7, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chilton Bryan, Butler, Binion, Rice & Cook, Frank J. Knapp and John L. McConn, Jr., Houston, for petitioners.

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Thomas B. Weatherly and L. J. Clayton, Houston, for respondent.


HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

Under our view the controlling question in this case is one of procedure, and our statement will be confined to the portions of the record relating to that question. The respondent, Harley R. Walker, sued petitioners, a number of insurance companies, upon builders risk insurance policies to recover damages for injury to a concrete dam allegedly caused by lightning. Upon the answers of the jury to special issues the trial court rendered judgment...

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