Safeco Insurance v. Ellinghouse

This cause of action arose in the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District of the State of Montana in and for the County of Yellowstone. The cause began as a declaratory judgment action September 20, 1982. Plaintiff, Safeco Insurance Company, filed suit against defendant, George Ellinghouse, to determine whether Ellinghouse had liability coverage under his Safeco policy in a suit *242then pending against him and others for the June, 1977, death of Raymond A. Taylor in Glendive, Montana. Ellinghouse answered alleging coverage and counterclaimed against Safeco for actual and punitive…