Allstate Insurance Company v. Smith

• Decision Date: 15 May 1968
• Docket Number: No. B--813,B--813
• Citation: 428 S.W.2d 807
• Parties: ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Truman C. SMITH et al., Respondents.
• Court: Texas Supreme Court

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428 S.W.2d 807

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Truman C. SMITH et al., Respondents.

No. B--813.

Supreme Court of Texas.

May 15, 1968.

Rehearing Denied July 2, 1968.

Albert Smith, Lubbock, for petitioner.

Dan Sullivan, Andrews, for respondents.

ON APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF ERROR

PER CURIAM.

Petitioner's original motion for summary judgment was overruled. The case was then submitted to a jury on special issues. When the members of the jury were unable to agree, they were discharged and an order was entered on October 13, 1966, declaring a mistrial. Thereafter on January 23, 1967, petitioner filed an amended motion for summary judgment, which was granted. This judgment has been reversed and the cause remanded, because the Court of Civil Appeals concluded that the amended motion for summary judgment was not timely filed. It reasoned that a motion for summary judgment comes too late when filed after the moving party's motion for instructed verdict has been overruled in the course of a conventional trial. 423 S.W.2d 600.

We are not satisfied that the holding of the Court of...