Frazier v. Hawkeye Casualty Co.

SYMES, District Judge.

The defendant, the Hawkeye Casualty Company, issued to the plaintiff its policy entitled “Owners’, Landlords’, and Tenants’ ” policy covering the apartment house owned and operated by the plaintiff Frazier at 311 W. 8th Street, Pueblo, Colorado, agreeing in general to indemnify and defend the insured from public liability.

On January 22, 1945, while the policy was in full force and effect, one Eva H. Edwards, a tenant, was injured. She stepped and fell on the icy sidewalk located on the premises. She brought an action in the state court for damages, alleging that her…