Lumber Mutual Casualty Ins. Co. v. Stukes

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in an action to obtain a declaratory judgment under a public liability insurance policy. The plaintiff in the court below was the Lumber Mutual Casualty Insurance Company, a New York corporation, and the" defendants were one G. N. Marshall, a citizen of South Carolina, doing business under the name of the Carolina Roofing Company, and Melvin Blease Stukes, also a citizen of South Carolina, who, as administrator of the estate of Eugene David Stukes, had instituted an action for damages against Marshall and others in a South Carolina state court. In the…