United States Fire Insurance v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

J. Fbeu Jones, Justice.

This appeal arises from litigation between three insurance companies as to their proportionate liability under separate liability policies issued to three separate individuals. The facts giving rise to the litigation came about in this manner:

On April 19, 1965, several young people were water siding behind motor boats on the Ouachita River near Camden, Arkansas. Walter Horne owned a motor boat and Harry Parker III was driving the boat, with Horne’s permission. Parker was pulling Eric Davis on water skis behind the boat. In the course of this activity, one Gerald Carney…