Diggs v. Southern Insurance

Birdsong, Judge.

This is an appeal from summary judgment to the insurer in an automobile collision controversy. The appellant is the son of the named insured and, while attending college and working in Atlanta, had been driving a covered Pontiac. The insurer erroneously cancelled the insurance policy in July 1982, for nonpayment of premiums. In October 1982, the named insured told his son not to drive the Pontiac because of a broken water pump. Two weeks later, appellant was involved in a collision while driving a borrowed rental car which had been leased to another. Appellant notified the…