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Fifth Circuit· 12/28/1949

Hardware Mut. Casualty Co. v. Schantz

Citations

  • 178 F.2d 779
  • 1949 U.S. App. LEXIS 2583

How courts have described this case

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  • finding in a declaratory judgment action in a Texas diversity case that indemnity issue was an actual controversy concerning rights, whether contingent or liquidated, valued in excess of jurisdictional requisite
  • “The purpose of the Declaratory Judgment Act is to settle ‘actual controversies’ before they ripen into violations of law or a breach of some contractual duty.” (emphasis added)

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Judges: Hutcheson, Waller, Russell

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