Lessak v. Metropolitan Casualty Ins.

William J. Lessak, engaged in business as the “Massillon Road Hardware and Lumber Company,” commenced the case here under review in the Common Pleas Court of Summit County, in which he sought a declaratory judgment to determine whether a policy of liability insurance issued to him by the Metropolitan Casualty insurance Company of New York provided coverage for liability arising out of a personal injury action brought against him and others by one Floyd Daniel Pouts, a minor.

The word “coverage,” as used above, is meant to apply to an obligation of the insurance company to defend the assured…