Case Name: J.D. ASHLEY SR. FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP; Richard H. Ashley; J.D. Ashley, Jr., Appellants, v. VALLEY FORGE INSURANCE COMPANY; Continental Casualty Company, Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-10-07
Citations: 395 F. App'x 318
Docket Number: No. 10-2098
Parties: J.D. ASHLEY SR. FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP; Richard H. Ashley; J.D. Ashley, Jr., Appellants, v. VALLEY FORGE INSURANCE COMPANY; Continental Casualty Company, Appellees.
Judges: Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 395
Pages: 318–319

Head Matter:
J.D. ASHLEY SR. FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP; Richard H. Ashley; J.D. Ashley, Jr., Appellants, v. VALLEY FORGE INSURANCE COMPANY; Continental Casualty Company, Appellees.
No. 10-2098.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: Oct. 5, 2010.
Filed: Oct. 7, 2010.
A. Vaughan Hankins, Stuart W. Han-kins, Hankins Law Firm, North Little Rock, AR, for Appellants.
Staci Dumas Carson, David Michael Donovan, Watts & Donovan, Little Rock, AR, for Appellees.
Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
J.D. Ashley, Sr. Family Limited Partnership, Richard Ashley, and J.D. Ashley, Jr., appeal from the district court's adverse grant of summary judgment in their breach-of-contract and tort action. After reviewing the record de novo, see TNT Speed & Sport Ctr. v. Am. States Ins. Co., 114 F.3d 731, 732 (8th Cir.1997), we conclude that the district court properly granted summary judgment. Specifically, we agree with the district court that, based on the allegations in a state court suit brought against appellants in connection with their conduct towards one of their partners, appellees had no duty to defend appellants against that lawsuit under the terms of the insurance policies at issue. Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
. The Honorable James M. Moody, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas.