Reynolds v. Hardware Mutual Casualty Company

HAMITER, Justice.

In this suit Douglas P. Reynolds seeks damages for personal injuries from Maryland Casualty Company (hereafter referred to as Maryland) and Hardware Mutual Casualty Company (hereafter called Hardware Mutual), the respective liability insurers of two vehicles involved in an intersectional collision in which he was allegedly injured.

Plaintiff was a guest passenger in one of the vehicles — -a Volkswagen bus driven by Claude E. Dake and insured by Maryland. Mrs. Lester Bloomenstiel was the driver of the other, it having been covered by Hardware Mutual.

Following a jury trial…