Maurice E. Foreman v. Continental Casualty Company

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to interpret the coverage of an insurance policy that protects a school board and school officials from loss resulting from wrongful acts in the discharge of their duties. Three school officials were sued for the damages resulting from physical assault on, and sexual molestation, of an 11 year old female student whom, it was charged, they negligently allowed to be taken from a Mississippi elementary school by an unauthorized male. The officials successfully defended the suit. They now seek to recover their attorney’s fees and other costs…