Helmkamp v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co.

TITUS, Judge.

This reconnoitering action was instituted to shanghai two insurance policies aboard a $100,000 damage suit now at anchor and ready to set sail in the Circuit Court of Lawrence County, Missouri. The damage suit defendant called upon the two respondent insurance companies to defend her in that action and to pay any adverse judgment that might be rendered. When the companies declined the honor, she then instituted the present declaratory judgment procedure to determine the disputes among the parties. 1

Following transfer of this case from the Circuit Court of Lawrence County, the…