Franklin Life Ins. Co. v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that third parties asserting liability against an insured under a liability policy are proper parties to a declaratory judgment proceeding, although their claims against the insurer are contingent upon recovery of a judgment against the insured
• “If, therefore, Helen M. Johnson is not a necessary and indispensable party, she is assuredly an interested and proper party to the declaratory action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).