Harvey Thomas Smoot, Jr. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1962-01-25

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JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge. This appeal tests the correctness of the dismissal of the complaint brought by an Assured to recover from his automobile Insurer the excess of the damage suit judgment over the face amount of the policy. Concededly this was done in the face of formal allegations which satisfied, at least, the Georgia good faith test. No trial in the usual sense has…

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