Empire Life Insurance Co. of America v. Moody

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a ―judgment under the [UDJA] depends on a finding that the issues are not hypothetical or contingent, and the questions presented must resolve an actual controversy‖
• explaining that a “judgment under the [ UDJA ] depends on a finding that the issues are not hypothetical or contingent, and the questions presented must resolve an actual controversy”
• determining that a judgment under the Declaratory Judgment Act depends on a finding that the issues are not hypothetical or contingent, and that the questions presented must resolve an actual controversy, although such questions may in the future require adjudication
• although not addressing the issue of insurable interest, supreme court cites to three classes of persons with insurable interest in the life of another as discussed in Drane
• A Moody applied for the policies in question and designated Empire as beneficiary and owner. As such, under the provisions of [article 3.19-1], Empire A shall at all times thereafter have an insurable interest . @

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).