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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 

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, . " ' . UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS OCT "5 1990 

TENTH CIRCUIT ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

MARJORIE BAKER, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

vs. 

ELIZABETH YOUNG and 

GLYNNIS JANE GARTSIDE, 

No. 89-1300 

(D.C. No. 86-A-2514) 

( D. Colo.) 

Defendants. 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT * 

Before TACHA, BALDOCK and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

The district court denied appellant's petition for a writ of 

attachment prior to judgment, Fed. R. Civ. P. 64; Colo. R. Civ. P. 

102(a) (1989 Supp.), and thereafter certified its order for our 

appellate review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). We exercised 

our discretion to permit the appeal and in turn certified the 

following question to the Colorado Supreme Court pursuant to Colo. 

App. R. 21. 1. 

* 

Whether Colorado law defines an insurer's obligation to 

indemnify and defend a non-resident insured as nonexempt 

property under Colo. R. Civ. P. 102(a) (Supp. 1989), 

thereby subjecting the obligation to attachment by a 

Colorado resident seeking to obtain quasi in rem 

jurisdiction? 

This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the law of the case, res 

judicata or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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The Colorado Supreme Court has now answered the question in the 

affirmative. Baker v. Young, No. 90SA43, slip op. at 2, 14 (Colo. 

Sept. 10, 1990) [1990 WL 129128]. Thus, we must REVERSE the 

district court's contrary resolution of this question and REMAND 

for proceedings consistent with the Colorado Supreme Court's 

resolution. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

Bobby R. Baldock 

Circuit Judge 

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