Anderson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Peterson, Justice.

This case is here on plaintiff’s appeal from the order sustaining defendant’s demurrer to the complaint. The question for decision is whether, in an action brought in Minnesota by a person injured in Wisconsin by the negligence of the insured named in an automobile liability insurance policy containing a no-action clause issued to him at his residence in Wisconsin, the insurer is liable directly to the person injured for the negligence of the insured where the insured’s liability for negligence has not been established by a judgment recovered against him after actual trial.

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