STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. HAINES

Record No. 941263.

458 S.E.2d 285 (1995)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Mary Ellen HAINES, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 9, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Eure (David B. Carson, Johnson, Ayers & Matthews, on briefs), Roanoke, for appellant.

Melissa Warner Scoggins (Paul G. Klockenbrink, Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, on brief), Roanoke, for appellee Virginia Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co.

No brief or argument on behalf of Allstate Ins. Co., Colonial Ins. Co. of California, Lorie A. Forbes, Paul A. Thurston, Sr., Adm'r, Mary Ellen Haines, Karen R. Vance, Daniel T. Walton and Jennifer Haines Walton.

Present: All the Justices.


WHITING, Justice.

In this appeal in a declaratory judgment action, we consider the effect of an admission obtained under Rule 4:11 upon the party making the admission and upon other parties to the action.

In August 1990, Mary Ellen Haines (Haines) bought a 1984 Subaru station wagon for the use of her daughter Jennifer. Haines took title to the Subaru and added it to her State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm) liability policy, with Haines...

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