Horace Mann Insurance v. Continental Casualty Co.

BECTON, Judge.

I

The facts are undisputed. In December 1977, the individual plaintiffs, J. E. Martin and Paul G. Heaton, as superintendent and principal, respectively, in the Stanly County School System, wbre sued in federal court by Michael Smith, a teacher, who alleged that his teaching contract had not been renewed because of his exercise of First Amendment rights. 1 At the time the federal court suit was instituted by Smith, CNA had in force and effect its policy number BEL 318 1371, under which the Stanly County Board of Education and the individual plaintiffs, Martin and Heaton, were…