Legal Opinion
Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America v. Schriefer
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 11, 1944No. 5228PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order dismissing a suit by an automobile indemnity insurance company to obtain a declaratory judgment to the effect that there was no liability, under one of the policies that it had issued, for damages that might be recovered against the insured on account of a claim which was then being sued on in a state court. The dismissal was granted, in the exercise of the court’s discretion, on the authority of our decision in Maryland Casualty Co. v. Boyle Construction Co., 4 Cir., 123 F.2d 558, without prejudice, however, to the right of the company to…
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