Texas Supreme Court, 2003

The Court held that Knott was not totally disabled under the policies because he remained able to perform some important and usual duties of his occupation as a physician. It also held that Provident’s 1986 letter clearly denied total-disability benefits, starting the two-year limitations period for Knott’s…

The Texas Supreme Court reversed the court of appeals and rendered judgment that the Chapman heirs take nothing in their effort to set aside an 1883 consent judgment quieting title to an undivided half of the Rincon de Santa Gertrudis grant in Richard King.