FINANCIAL INDEMNITY CO. v. MURPHY

Docket No. 20641.

223 Cal.App.2d 621 (1963)

35 Cal. Rptr. 913

FINANCIAL INDEMNITY COMPANY, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant, v. VERNICE MURPHY et al., Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants; FARMERS INSURANCE EXCHANGE et al., Cross-defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

December 20, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bolton, Groff & Dunne, John S. Bolton and Abe Mutchnik for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant.

Nagle & Vale, Sandford, Barry, Staiger & Seaver, Warren A. Staiger and Vernon V. Vale for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants.

Schofield & Cunningham, William F. Levins, Richard G. Logan and A. John Merlo for Cross-defendants and Respondents.


DEVINE, J.

The principal question is, which of two insurance companies is liable for damages resulting from a collision of vehicles; and there is a subordinate question of the damages covered. Each of the insurance companies which are parties to the case believes that the party claiming to have been insured, Vernice Murphy, was probably insured, but by the other carrier.

Facts

In May 1959, Mrs. Murphy, a resident of Paradise, Butte County...

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