Maryland Casualty Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

The evidence is undisputed that the plaintiff’s named insured, Roy Black, lent his truck to his father-in-law, Kermit Faglier, in exchange for the latter’s Chrysler automobile, and authorized a finding that the exchange was for the latter’s benefit. The parties agreed to the temporary exchange on a Thursday, in the hospital room of Kermit’s wife (Black’s mother-in-law) in Louisville, Georgia, some 45 or 50 miles from Kermit’s home in Augusta, the exchange to be made at that place on the following evening. On Friday night Kermit did not feel well enough to drive from Augusta to Louisville, and…