Legal Opinion
Special Jet Services, Inc. v. Federal Insurance
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided September 20, 1979No. Civ. A. No. 79-697PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SNYDER, District Judge.
In this declaratory judgment action brought in state court by an insured seeking to establish coverage under an insurance policy and removed to the United States District Court, the insurer moves to dismiss for failure to join an additional insurer as a necessary party. We find the additional insurer not to be a necessary party, and the Motion will be denied.
*597I. BACKGROUND
T. R. Paul and S. Kent Rockwell were the owners of a turboprop aircraft which was destroyed in an accident in Raton, New Mexico on August 25, 1978, killing four of the passengers. Special Jet…
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