Court Opinion

ID: 9676787
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:33:15.936399+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:51.213612
License: Public Domain

NORVELL, Justice
(dissenting).
While the form of receipt involved in this case may be undesirable from a number of standpoints and its use in the insurance field may be against the “public interest,” nev*244ertheless, as no policy was issued, the receipt is the contract upon which the respondents must recover if they are to recover at all. The Court reaches the conclusion that this cause should be remanded by construing the provisions of the receipt in a way to bring about results that I cannot justify from the wording of the contract. I am in general agreement with the construction placed upon the provisions of a similarly worded receipt by the Dallas Court of Civil Appeals in Debenport v. Great Commonwealth Life Insurance Company, Tex.Civ.App., 324 S.W.2d 566, no wr. hist. I would follow the Debenport case and render judgment here for the insurance company. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent from the Court’s order remanding the cause.
GRIFFIN, J., joins in this opinion.