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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