Meehan v. Commerical Casualty Insurance

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice Beease.

This case, tried in the County Court of Richland County, before his Honor, Judge Whaley, and a jury, was based upon a policy of automobile liability insurance, issued by the appellant to one Joseph Wachtel, insuring against loss or expense sustained by reason of damage done to the person or property of another in the operation of an automobile described in the policy. The facts out of which the case grew are as follows:

Wachtel, of Newark, N. J., while traveling in the automobile, near Columbia, in the early part of January,…