Jones v. Thunderbird Transportation Company
Decision Date | 04 November 1959 |
Docket Number | No. T-2260.,T-2260. |
Citation | 178 F. Supp. 9 |
Parties | Margaret E. JONES, Plaintiff, v. THUNDERBIRD TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, Inc., and American Fidelity and Casualty Company, Inc., Defendants. |
Court | U.S. District Court — District of Kansas |
Herbert A. Marshall (of Meyers, Gault, Marshall & Hawks), Topeka, Kan., for plaintiff.
Irwin Snattinger, David H. Fisher and Donald Patterson, Topeka, Kan., for defendants.
This action arises out of a motor vehicle collision between an automobile operated by the plaintiff and a passenger bus which was operated by the defendant Thunderbird Transportation Company, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Thunderbird). In the fourth paragraph of the complaint, the plaintiff incorporates and makes a part thereof an insurance policy issued by the defendant American Fidelity and Casualty Company, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Insurer) to the defendant Thunderbird. The defendants have moved to strike from the complaint the language in paragraph four of the complaint, which incorporates the insurance policy, and to strike the policy, attached to the complaint and incorporated therein by reference.
Insurer is made a party defendant to this action by virtue of Kan.G. S.1957 Supp., 66-1,128, which provides:
The insurance contract issued by Insurer to Thunderbird provides that Insurer will pay, subject to the limits of liability, all sums which the insured may become legally obligated to pay as damages because of bodily injury arising out of the use of the vehicle. Under Kansas law, the provision referred to would cause the policy to be classified as one of liability and not one of indemnity. Burks v. Aldridge, 1942, 154 Kan. 731, 121 P.2d 276, 280. In that case the court said:
However, whatever label we may give the policy in this suit, its terms specifically provide that no action may be maintained directly against the insurer until a judgment has been obtained...
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