Gerald Bourget, and Security Insurance Company of Hartford, Inc., Intervening v. Government Employees Insurance Company

FRIENDLY, Chief Judge:

In this diversity action we are called upon to predict what result the Supreme Court of Connecticut would reach under a provision in a statute of that state, now Title 38, § 38-175, of the General Statutes,1 enacted in 1919, which has previously been construed in this context in only one reported case, and that in a federal court. Turgeon v. Shelby Mutual Plate Glass & Cas. Co., 112 F.Supp. 355 (D.Conn.1953) (Smith, then D.J.). Although the parties have favored us with liberal quotations from Connecticut opinions on other problems of liability insurance, none throws any…