HARGIS v. UNITED FARM BUREAU MUT. INS. CO.

No. 1-478A91.

388 N.E.2d 1175 (1979)

Ernest D. HARGIS, d/b/a Paradise Lake, Thelma Harris and Ernest Hargis, d/b/a Paradise Lake, Ronald Gibbs, and Patricia Koch, Appellants (Defendants below), v. UNITED FARM BUREAU Mutual Insurance Company, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District.

April 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George N. Craig, Craig, Craig & Yelton, Brazil, for appellants Ernest D. Hargis and Thelma Harris, d/b/a Paradise Lake.

Luther G. Johnson, Mann, Chaney, Johnson, Hicks & Goodwin, Terre Haute, for appellants Ronald Gibbs and Patricia Koch.

Jerdie D. Lewis, Terre Haute, for appellee; Kenneth C. Miller, Brazil, Lewis & Lewis, Terre Haute, of counsel.


ROBERTSON, Judge.

Ernest and Thelma Hargis, d/b/a Paradise Lake (Hargises), Ronald Gibbs and Patricia Koch appeal an adverse decision in a bench trial rendered in favor of appellee, United Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. (Farm Bureau) in a declaratory judgment action. The trial court found that Farm Bureau had no insurance contract in effect with the Hargises and therefore was under no duty or obligation to appear and defend a tort action brought by Gibbs and Koch...

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