TEXAS STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO. ET AL.

v.

HOUGHTON

Citator

Cited By (14 total)

• Lumbermen's Mut. Cas. Co. v. Elbert, 348 U.S. 48 (U.S. 1954)
  …seems to us to fall squarely within the provision. In Louisiana the practice of bringing direct actions in the federal courts has long been recognized. See, e. g., New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Soileau, 167 F. 2d 767 (C. A. 5th Cir.), cert. denied, 335 U. S. 822; Bankers Indemnity Ins. Co. v. Green, 181 F. 2d 1 (C. A. 5th Cir.); Belanger v. Great American Ind. Co., 188 F. 2d 196 (C. A. 5th Cir.). Neither federal nor Louisiana law suggests any reason to disturb this practice. The decision of the Court of App…
• Petition of Canal Barge Co., Inc. v. Griffith, 480 F.2d 11 (5th Cir. 1973)
  …, Cunningham must be read as rejecting any logical or practical distinction between an instruction as to the dollar’s present deflated value, which had been previously approved in New Amsterdam Co. v. Soileau, 167 F. 2d 767 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 335 U.S. 822, 69 S.Ct. 45, 93 L. Ed. 376 (1948), and an instruction as to future inflationary trends. 11B . In Johnson v. Penrod Drilling Co., 469 P. 2d 897 (5 Cir. 1972, advance sheet ed.) a panel of this court reversed on procedural grounds the lower court’s…
• Hobart v. O'Brien, 243 F.2d 735 (1st Cir. 1957)
  …745] nied 1956, 350 U.S. 988, 76 S.Ct. 475, 100 L.Ed. 854, Moore-McCormack Lines v. Amirault, 1 Cir., 1953, 202 F. 2d 893 and by the Fifth Circuit in New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Soileau, 1948, 167 F. 2d 767, 6 A.L.R.2d 128, certiorari denied 1948, 335 U.S. 822, 69 S.Ct. 45, 93 L.Ed. 376. These cases make it quite clear that where, as here, the injury giving rise to the cause of action occurred in Massachusetts, and the federal court obtained jurisdiction through diversity, the substantive law to be appli…