STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY v. HEARN, ADM'X

[No. 292, September Term, 1965.]

242 Md. 575 (1966)

219 A.2d 820

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY v. HEARN, ADMINISTRATRIX ET AL. HEARN, ADMINISTRATRIX ET AL. v. UNSATISFIED CLAIM AND JUDGMENT FUND BOARD ET AL. (Two Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 27, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. William Simpson and John W.T. Webb, with whom were Webb, Anderson & Burnett on the brief, for the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, one of the appellants.

Submitted on brief by Vaughn E. Richardson and Patrick L. Rogan, Jr., for Elizabeth P. Hearn, Administratrix et al., the other appellants.

William A. Franch, with whom were McWilliams & Melvin on the brief, for Robert Douglas Griffith, one of the appellees.

R. Randolph Victor, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, on the brief, for the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Board, the other appellee.

The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER and BARNES, JJ.


OPPENHEIMER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal from a decree in a declaratory judgment proceeding raises, albeit inchoately, the relative rights and obligations of an additional insured and the insurer in respect of the giving of notice under an automobile liability insurance policy after accident and suit. The facts before us are uncontradicted.

Appellant, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm) issued to Delores Ann...

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