Gray v. Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Co.

TOMLIN, Presiding Judge (W.S.).

Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Company (“Tennessee Farmers”) has appealed to this Court from a judgment against it under the uninsured motorist provisions of its insurance policy. Plaintiffs originally brought a personal injury suit in the Circuit Court of Shelby County in September 1979, against L.V. Orange, a/k/a L.V. Bonds (“Orange”), as defendant. They also served a copy of the complaint on Tennessee Farmers, their uninsured motorist carrier. Tennessee Farmers, in its answer, denied Orange was negligent and also denied that he was an uninsured motorist.…