LIBERTY &c. INS. CO. v. MEAD CORPORATION

21964.

219 Ga. 6 (1963)

131 S.E.2d 534

LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. MEAD CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 9, 1963.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan, Carter, Ansley & Smith, for plaintiff in error.

Nall, Miller, Codenhead & Dennis, A. Paul Cadenhead, Thomas A. Rice, contra.

H. H. Perry, Jr., Ed Barham, for party at interest not party to record.


GRICE, Justice.

For determination is whether an insurer was required to defend remaining actions against the insured after it had, with the consent and contribution of the insured, exhausted the policy limit of liability by settling two of the suits arising from the same accident.

This issue arose in a petition filed in the Civil Court of Fulton County by the insured, Mead Corporation, against its insurer, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. In it Mead sought...

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