The Aetna Casualty and Surety Company v. Herbert H. Hase

VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge.

This is a timely appeal by defendant The Aetna Casualty and Surety Company (Aetna) from a judgment for $45,-000 entered against it in favor of plaintiff Herbert H. Hase. Hase had obtained a judgment in the Circuit Court of St. Louis against Wright City Display Manufacturing Company (Display) in the same amount in a common law action based upon negligence. Hase in the present suit, based upon diversity jurisdiction, seeks enforcement of the state judgment against Aetna on the basis that such risk is insured by a comprehensive liability insurance policy issued by…