State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Sellers

This is an action under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act wherein plaintiff seeks to be relieved of liability under an insurance policy issued to defendant Earl B. Selders. Judgment was entered for. plaintiff in the district court; We reverse that. judgment in part.

Plaintiff issued to Earl B. Selders a policy of insurance on an automobile jointly owned by Earl B. Selders and his wife Ila Selders. The policy provided for uninsured automobile coverage but limited persons so insured as follows: “The unqualified word ‘insured’ means

“(1) the first person named in the declarations and while…