Cunningham Brothers, Inc. v. Harry Bail

How courts have described this case

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• “[C]ompel[ling] potential personal injury plaintiffs to litigate their claims at a time and in a forum chosen by the alleged tort-feasor would be a perversion of the Declaratory Judgment Act.”
• sustaining suit would force injured party to litigate claim he may not have wanted to litigate at time which might be inconvenient to him or which might precede his determination of the full extent of damages, and in forum chosen by alleged tort-feasor
• suit to determine insurer's obligations to indemnify was premature until insured was determined liable to third party
• “[T]o compel potential … plaintiffs to litigate their claims at a time and in a forum chosen by the alleged tort-feasor would be a perversion of the Declaratory Judgment Act[.]”
• “[T]o compel poten- tial personal injury plaintiffs to litigate their claims at a time and in a forum chosen by the alleged tort-feasor would be a perversion of the Declaratory Judgment Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).