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Contracts - Anticipatory Breach - Right To Recover In Advance On A Unilateral Obligation To Pay Money, John M. Ulman May 1939

Contracts - Anticipatory Breach - Right To Recover In Advance On A Unilateral Obligation To Pay Money, John M. Ulman

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Plaintiff brought suit on an accident insurance policy. He alleged that the defendant insurer wholly repudiated the policy and informed plaintiff that it would not in any event pay him the monthly indemnity according to the terms of the policy even though a doctor of its own choice advised that the plaintiff was permanently disabled. Held, that under the Texas law, when one who is obligated by contract to make money payments to another absolutely repudiates and abandons the obligation without just excuse, the obligee is entitled to maintain his action in damages at once for the entire breach. …


Insurance -- Effect Of The Passenger-For-Hire Clauses On Scope Of Protection Under Automobile Insurance Policies, Benjamin G. Cox Apr 1939

Insurance -- Effect Of The Passenger-For-Hire Clauses On Scope Of Protection Under Automobile Insurance Policies, Benjamin G. Cox

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Quite common in automobile policies insuring against risks of fire, theft, collision, personal liability, etc., from the use of the automobile is a provision either effecting a termination of the policy or excluding the particular loss from the coverage of the policy if or when the automobile is used to carry passengers for hire or consideration. The full purport of this type passenger clause is unfortunately too often not realized by the insured person until he is met with a loss, unforeseen and against which he believed himself to be protected. This comment, then, will attempt an analysis of the …