FEDERAL INS. CO. v. ALLSTATE INS. CO.

[No. 234, September Term, 1974.]

275 Md. 460 (1975)

341 A.2d 399

FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL. v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 8, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Delverne A. Dressel, with whom were Emanuel H. Horn and Dickerson, Nice, Sokol & Horn and Hal C.B. Clagett and Sasscer, Clagett, Channing & Bucher on the brief, for appellants.

F. Gray Goudy for Allstate Insurance Company and Market Insurance Company, part of appellees. Samuel O. Jackson, Jr., with whom were Max R. Israelson, Israelson. Pines & Jackson, P.A., Louis F. Friedman and Miles & Friedman on the brief, for Sarah E. Allison, other appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ.


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

This appeal arises primarily from a dispute between two automobile liability insurers over who should bear the initial brunt of several personal injury claims. A third insurance company is also embroiled, but its fortunes ride on the outcome of the main contest. The case commenced with an action for declaratory judgment filed in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County by appellants, Federal Insurance Company (Federal...

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