Allstate Insurance Co. v. Lyons

POMEROY, Justice.

In this declaratory judgment action, Allstate Insurance Company seeks relief from a Superior Court judgment holding Allstate responsible for the defense of, and such damages as may be recovered in, a negligence action instituted by Richard K. Lyons, and his father John R. Lyons, against the administrator of the estate of Victor B. MacArthur.

That action arose out of an accident involving an automobile upon which Allstate has issued a liability policy. At the time of the accident Victor B. MacArthur had been permitted to drive the car by Wayne Barrett, the son of the named…