Legal Opinion
Compass Insurance Co. v. Cravens, Dargan & Co.
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided January 13, 1988No. 87-27PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*726MACY, Justice.
This is an appeal from a judgment against appellant Compass Insurance Company (Compass) awarding complete reimbursement to appellee Cravens, Dargan and Company (Cravens) for the amount it paid to the State of Wyoming for the cleanup of an oil spill.
We affirm in part and reverse in part.
The issue to be resolved is which of these insurers for the State of Wyoming insured the cost of cleaning up the oil spill.
Sometime after 4:00 p.m. on March 18, 1984, an unknown person entered the Wyoming highway department maintenance yard at Evanston, Wyoming, and opened the valve on an oil…
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