Allied Mutual Casualty Co. v. Askerud

Murphy, Justice.

This is an action by an insurer for an injunction and a declaratory judgment as to its duties and liabilities under two insurance policies in respect to a personal injury suit which is now pending against the insured.

A summary of the facts as they appear in the record shows that Harry Askerud, the insured, and LaVerne Turvold, a close friend, had an oral understanding that they would combine their efforts in so far as labor was concerned to construct a house on property which the insured owned adjacent to his home near Austin, Minnesota. Both men were employed full-time at the…