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JEFFERSON-PILOT FIRE & CASUALTY v. BOOTHE, PRICHARD & DUDLEY

Nos. 79-1628, 79-1646.

638 F.2d 670 (1980)

JEFFERSON-PILOT FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, a North Carolina corporation, Appellant, v. BOOTHE, PRICHARD & DUDLEY, a Virginia partnership, E. Waller Dudley, William W. Koontz, Fairfax S. McCandlish, A. Hugo Blankingship, Jr., Carrington Williams, John S. Stump, Edgar Allen Prichard, Haynie S. Trotter, Fred C. Alexander, Jr., R. Dennis McArver, Richard R. G. Hobson, Philip Tierney, J. Jay Corson, IV, Stanley M. Franklin, Arthur P. Scibelli, James Howe Brown, Jr., Charles S. Perry, Courtland L. Traver, R. Terrence Ney, Michael T. Bradshaw, Thomas L. Appler, Thomas C. Brown, Jr. and Carson Lee Fifer, Jr., partners comprising the firm of Boothe, Prichard & Dudley, Appellees. JEFFERSON-PILOT FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, a North Carolina corporation, Appellee, v. BOOTHE, PRICHARD & DUDLEY, a Virginia partnership, E. Waller Dudley, William W. Koontz, Fairfax S. McCandlish, A. Hugo Blankingship, Jr., Carrington Williams, John S. Stump, Edgar Allen Prichard, Haynie S. Trotter, Fred C. Alexander, Jr., R. Dennis McArver, Richard R. G. Hobson, Philip Tierney, J. Jay Corson, IV, Stanley M. Franklin, Arthur P. Scibelli, James Howe Brown, Jr., Charles S. Perry, Courtland L. Traver, R. Terrence Ney, Michael T. Bradshaw, Thomas L. Appler, Thomas C. Brown, Jr. and Carson Lee Fifer, Jr., partners comprising the firm of Boothe, Prichard & Dudley, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Boccarosse, Jr., Arlington, Va. (Siciliano, Ellis, Sheridan & Dyer, Arlington, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Michael McGettigan, Alexandria, Va. (George F. West, Jr., Murphy, McGettigan, McNally & West, Alexandria, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and ERVIN, Circuit Judge.

ERVIN, Circuit Judge.

The Virginia law firm of Boothe, Prichard & Dudley sued Jefferson-Pilot Fire & Casualty Company to recover damages for Jefferson-Pilot's failure to defend Boothe, Prichard under its professional liability policy in a civil antitrust suit (the Kahn suit).1 The district court granted Boothe, Prichard summary judgment on the issue of liability, denied it attorney's fees incurred in bringing the instant action...

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