York Mutual Insurance Co. of Maine v. Mooers

York Mutual Insurance Company of Maine (York) had issued a “homeowner’s” insurance policy to Roger Mooers and his wife, Jean Mooers. Thereafter, while Mabel Mooers, Roger’s mother, was visiting at the home of her son-in-law, Kenneth Richards, in Lyman, five-year-old Tammy Lynn Grover, who was playing on or near the Richards’ property, was bitten by Mabel’s dog. Subsequently, the mother of the child, Bertha Dunlap, brought a negligence action on the child’s behalf against Mabel and Richards. York commenced a declaratory judgment action in the Superior Court, York County, naming as defendants…