New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Stecker

Conway, Ch. J.

In this declaratory judgment action we are called upon to review the correctness of the Appellate Division determination that the plaintiff, New Amsterdam Casualty Company, which issued, in New York, an automobile liability policy to defendant, Molly Stecker, a New York resident, is not obligated (1) to defend the said insured in an action instituted against her in Connecticut by her husband, defendant Emanuel Stecker, as the result of an automobile accident occurring in that State, or (2) to pay any judgment obtained by the insured’s husband against her in such suit.

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