Ferguson v. Manufacturers' Casualty Insurance

Opinion by

Baldkige, J.,

This action in assumpsit was brought on a policy of automobile liability insurance issued by the defendant, insuring M. J. Melia and any others operating the automobile described “with the permission of the Named Assured.”

On April 2, 1929, during the policy term, Thomas Melia received possession of the car from his brother, the insured, for the purpose of driving the latter’s family from Crafton to Gimbel’s store in Pittsburgh, where they arrived about one o’clock, and then to go to a place on Fifth Avenue, about ten blocks distant, on his personal business. He was to…