Riverside Insurance v. Wiland

This is a joint appeal from a declaratory judgment of the Portage County Court of Common Pleas. The defendants-appellants are Dexter Wiland and James C. Rankin. The plaintiff-appellee is Riverside Insurance Company, personal liability insurer of appellants.

The appellants, along with Donald Bentley and Robert Petry, were named as defendants in an action brought by the Donald Montgomery family. The gist of the complaint alleged that:

“2. * * * defendants, acting jointly and in concert, while armed with a baseball bat, wilfully, intentionally and maliciously, without provocation, in vigilante…