Ohio Casualty Insurance Group v. Robinson

On January 20, 1978, Eugene Robinson drove his pickup truck to Tom Marks’s Garage, a repair garage owned by Tom Marks. Robinson went there to pick up a hydraulic jack. As Robinson and Marks were loading the jack into the truck, Robinson slipped on some grease on the garage floor. He fell and suffered a back injury.

Eugene and Edith Robinson sued Tom Marks for negligence. Mr. Marks’s insurer, Ohio Casualty Insurance Group, brought this action for declaratory relief to establish that Mr. Marks is also an insured under Mr. Robinson’s automobile policy with Riverside Insurance Company, a member of…