VERNON v. AETNA INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 18840.

301 F.2d 86 (1962)

C. A. VERNON and Marianne Vernon, Appellants, v. AETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Cire, James J. Hippard, Percy Foreman, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants. Foreman & Walsh, Cire & Jamail, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

David Bland, Houston, Tex., for appellee. Barrow, Bland & Rehmet, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and HUTCHESON and RIVES, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The case is before us upon appeal from a summary judgment rendered in behalf of the insurer, appellee here, in an action by the insured on a personal property floater policy of insurance. As a statement of the facts of the case will show, this is another of those all too numerous instances of the mis-use of the summary judgment procedure to cut a trial short; as so often before, it has served only to prove that short-cutting of trials is...

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