Employers Mutual Liability Ins. v. Houston Fire & Casualty Ins.

BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

The facts in these cases are set forth in detail in our original opinion, reported at D.C., 194 F.Supp. 828, and will not be repeated here.

In that opinion, this Court, sitting as a Louisiana forum, found that inasmuch as the policy of insurance had been delivered in Arkansas, the law of that State must govern. In the absence of any Arkansas decisions on the questions involved, we felt that the reasoning and ruling announced in American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co., 248 F.2d 509 (5th Cir., 1957), should control.

Within a relatively…