Life & Casualty Insurance v. Cantrell

This is an appeal from the judgment upon an in surance policy. The facts were stipulated in the trial court.

Dewey Cantrell was killed by accident in the course of his employment while driving a privately used motor truck on the public highway. He was insured by the Life and Casualty Insurance Company against death “by the collision of or any accident to any private horse-drawn vehicle or private motor-driven automobile in which the insured is riding or driving.”

The insurance company insists that this provision of the policy does not extend to accidental injury or death from use of a private…