Continental Insurance Companies v. Hancock

STEINFELD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment which held the appellant, Continental Insurance Companies, liable for the payment of judgments totaling $74,000.00 plus interest obtained by appellees, Walter Hancock, Larry Chism and O. E. Wilburn against the appellee, Walter Simpson. Continental Insurance Company was the insurer of Walter Simpson.

In October 1967, Hancock, Chism and Wilburn were patrons of a nightclub operated by Simpson in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Chism insulted one of the waitresses in the establishment and was asked to leave by Simpson. Some difficulty…