Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York

STALEY, Circuit Judge.

The primary question raised on this appeal is whether under the insurance contracts issued to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (“Pittsburgh”) by Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York (“Fidelity”) it was incumbent upon Fidelity to appear and defend on Pittsburgh’s behalf a law suit instituted by Columbia Air-O-Blind Company in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina and indemnify Pittsburgh for the amount paid by it in settlement.

Fidelity, a New York corporation engaged in the insurance business in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,…