Manchester Insurance & Indemnity Co. v. Ring

NORWIN D. HOUSER, Senior Judge.

This is a court-tried declaratory judgment action. The issue is whether either (or both) of two liability insurance carriers is obligated to defend lawsuits filed against Norman L. Ring, arising out of collisions between a 1970 Pontiac automobile Ring was driving in Jackson County on July 15, 1971, and two tractor-trailer units, and to pay any judgment or judgments obtained against him. Several pending actions filed by the insurers, owners and drivers of the tractor-trailer units are being held in abeyance, awaiting the outcome of this declaratory judgment…