S.C. INS. CO. v. JAMES C. GREENE & CO.

0798

290 S.C. 171 (1986)

348 S.E.2d 617

SOUTH CAROLINA INSURANCE COMPANY, Respondent v. JAMES C. GREENE AND COMPANY, a corporation, and Blane H. Lawson, doing business as Jim Robertson Insurance Agency, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided September 8, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Brown of Weinberg, Brown & MacDougall, Sumter, for appellant James C. Greene and Co.

Herbert W. Hamilton of Whaley, McCutchen, Blanton & Rhodes, Columbia, for appellant Blane H. Lawson.

Alva M. Lumpkin and B. Michael Brackett of Lumpkin & Sherrill, Columbia, for respondent.


Submitted March 19, 1986.

Decided Sept. 8, 1986.

BELL, Judge:

South Carolina Insurance Company seeks indemnity from its agents, James C. Greene and Company and Blane H. Lawson, for alleged negligence which caused it to pay a default judgment against its insured, Patricia Manning, in excess of policy limits. Greene and Lawson each raise the defense of imputed contributory negligence as a bar to the Insurance Company's recovery against them. The circuit...

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