State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Vails

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal by the complainant insurance company (State Farm) from a final decree in a declaratory judgment proceeding determining coverage under an automobile liability insurance policy issued by State Farm.

Two questions are presented, viz: Whether the trial court correctly held (1) that there was coverage and (2) that State Farm should pay attorneys’ fees to the solicitors of two of the respondents in the declaratory judgment proceeding.

The named insured, M. J. Meaney, operates a flower shop in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which adjoins his home. He employed William Henry…