Twin City Fire Insurance Company v. Country Mutual Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Out of a ghastly accident in 1983 grew a dispute between two liability-insurance companies that was litigated in a federal district court in Illinois under the diversity jurisdiction, resulting in a jury verdict for one of the insurance companies, Twin City, for $336,000, and an appeal by the other, Country Mutual. The accident came about as follows. A school bus owned by an Illinois school district and driven by an employee of the district, Nelma White, collided with an automobile carrying four teenage boys — Larry Hoog-straten (the driver), Paul Jacobsma, Ron Sto-gin,…
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