Legal Opinion
State Farm Fire & Casualty Company v. Robert Ray Mhoon, Takura Fujiwara, and Melinda Isabel Fujiwara
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 1, 1994No. 93-2103PublishedCited by 423 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Associate Justice (Ret.).
State Farm Fire & Casualty Company sought and received in federal district court a declaration that it had no obligation to insure or defend Robert Mhoon, one of its policyholders, in a state tort action. We are now called upon to review the district court’s decision to exercise jurisdiction over State Farm’s claim, and its ultimate disposition of that claim on the merits. We do so and affirm.
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Robert Mhoon and Takuro Fujiwara were neighbors. On February 16, 1990, an afternoon conversation between the pair in Mhoon’s garage erupted into an argument. The argument…
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