STATE FARM FIRE & CAS. v. EDGECUMBE

No. AY-493.

471 So.2d 209 (1985)

STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, a Foreign Insurance Company, Appellant, v. William B. EDGECUMBE and Eva Lucille Edgecumbe, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 21, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Townsend of Chesser, Wingard, Barr & Townsend, Ft. Walton Beach, for appellant.

Joe J. Harrell of Harrell, Wiltshire, Stone & Swearingen, Pensacola, for appellees.


THOMPSON, Judge.

State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (State Farm) appeals a final declaratory judgment finding that it owed a duty under its policy of insurance to provide Eva Lucille Edgecumbe with a defense to the proceedings filed against her by a third party, and ordering State Farm to pay any judgment rendered therein up to the policy limits of her coverage. We reverse.

James Smith filed suit against Mrs. Edgecumbe alleging that she "wickedly and

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