Jones v. Bituminous Casualty Corp.

LEIBSON, Justice.

Bituminous Casualty Corporation, the respondent, filed a Declaration of Rights action in Knox Circuit Court seeking a judgment declaring it has “no obligation or duty to appear and defend ... or to indemnify” under a liability insurance policy issued to Huston Partin and others doing business as S & J Mining Company, with regard to injuries sustained by John Jones, the movant, in an explosion on the mining company’s premises occurring February 7, 1988.

At one point John Jones had been a partner in the enterprise, but at the time of the explosion he was no longer associated…