Case ID: sw2d_81/html/0488-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CRITZ, Commissioner.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MOXON et al. v. RAY et al.
    No. 1829-6465.
    Commission of Appeals of Texas, Section A.
    April 3, 1935.
    Thomas & McDonald, of Big Spring, for plaintiff in error.
    Touchstone, Wight, Gormley & Price, of Dallas, for defendant in error.
   CRITZ, Commissioner.

The opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals in this case is reported in 56 S.W.(2d) 469. In the case of Kuntz v. Spence, 67 S.W.(2d) 254, this section of the commission adopted Judge Martin’s opinion in the instant case. The opinion in the Kuntz Case, ■ supra, settles the issue of misjoinder in this case in accordance with the views expressed by Judge Martin’s opinion. No good can he accomplished by further discussion here.

It will be noted that the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals in the instant case contains the following statement: “The Monzingo v. Jones Case [(Tex. Civ. App.) 34 S.W.(2d) 662], supra, construes a policy required by law to be taken out by motorbus operators and by statute is required to be so written as to give the injured party an affirmative right of action thereon.”

Monzingo v. Jones (Tex. Civ. App.) 34 S.W.(2d) 662, holds that an insurance compa-' ny which has issued an insurance policy to a bus operator under the provisions of section 11 of article 911a, Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. (volume 2), can be sued on such policy in a damage suit for negligence against the insured. We do not construe the above-quoted portion of the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals in the instant case as upholding that ruling. Volker Grasso v. Cannon Ball Motor Freight Lines et al., 81 S.W.(2d) 482, this day decided by this section of the commission. It is true that a policy written under the provisions of section 11, supra, inures to the benefit of an injured third party, but his right of action thereon does not arise or accrue until he has obtained a final judgment against the insured. See Grasso v. Cannon Ball Motor Freight Lines et al., supra, for a full discussion of this question.

The judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals, which reversed the judgment of the district court, is affirmed.

Opinion adopted by the Supreme Court