State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Anderson

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree in a declaratory judgment proceeding in which the trial court held that State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is liable to defend Dr. Martin N. Anderson in a law suit arising out of a collision of Anderson’s Lincoln Continental with another automobile on November 1, 1973.

Dr. Anderson’s bill of complaint alleged as a basis for finding that there was coverage the fact that the defendant, with knowledge that the accident had occurred, negotiated and deposited plaintiff’s check for a premium admittedly drawn and mailed after the expiration of…