Royal Globe Insurance v. Alma

At basic issue in this declaratory judgment action is whether plaintiff Boyal Globe Insurance Company or defendant Hartford Insurance Company is obligated to defend an action brought by defendants Alma against the Town of Hempstead and Lizza & Sons, Inc. The answers of Hartford and of the town plead the six-year Statute of Limitations and laches and by way of counterclaim ask for a declaration that Boyal and not Hartford is obligated to defend and to pay any judgment recovered by the Almas.

Mrs. Alma sustained personal injuries on February 4, 1963 when .she drove into a depression or hole in…