Johnson v. American Automobile Insurance

The defendant is a corporation writing liability insurance on automobiles. It executed and delivered to James F. Becker, a policy covering his car. On June 6,1931, while this policy was in force and effect, George Benson Rix, an employee of Mr. Becker, crashed the automobile into a telephone pole, to the consequent physical injury of the plaintiff, a young woman who was riding gratuitously in the vehicle. She brought an action in tort against the automobile driver; judgment was entered on a verdict for $1,800, with taxable costs. This judgment remaining unsatisfied for twenty days, the…