Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company v. United States

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company (Southern), a third-party defendant below, appeals from a judgment entered in favor of the United States of America as a third-party plaintiff in a negligence action originally instituted against Jerry Boles, a rural mail carrier, and others. Boles was an assured of Southern under a liability policy. The liability policy contained the usual omnibus coverage clause, which Southern attempted to qualify and restrict by excluding the United States as an omnibus insured.

Boles, while in the course of his duties as a mail…