State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Davis

937 F.2d 1415 STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO., a corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Walter Allen DAVIS, and Brian J. Painter, Defendants, and Charles R. Keukelaar, Shellie A. Keukelaar, Charles Rubin Keukelaar, a minor, by Shellie A. Keukelaar, his Guardian ad litem, Defendants-Appellants. No. 89-56044. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Nov. 7, 1990. Decided July 1, 1991. 1 William B. Hanley, McCormick, Kidman & Behrens, Costa Mesa, Cal., for defendants-appellants. 2 Richard C. Turner, Mary K. Lenahan, and Robert D. Brugge, Spray, Gould & Bowers, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee. 3 Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. 4 Before D.W. NELSON and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges, and SINGLETON, * District Judge. SINGLETON, District Judge: 5 State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. ("State Farm") brought this action in federal district court seeking a declaratory judgment. State Farm alleged that a policy of automobile insurance it had issued to Walter Allen Davis ("Davis") did not cover an incident where Davis shot and injured Charles Keukelaar ("Keukelaar"), the driver of another…