State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Bodiford

This is an appeal from a final decree, in equity, entered by the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama. The decree is responsive to and based on a jury’s verdict *511at law on an “issue out of equity.” Howard v. Ridgeway, 225 Ala. 106, 142 So. 403(1).

Appellant filed its petition in equity to determine if it were obligated under a policy of liability insurance to defend Earl Leon Bodiford, one of the respondents, in a suit against him, filed at law, to recover damages for the death of Joe Lawrence Palmer. The suit was filed by the executor of the estate of the deceased. Palmer was killed when an…