Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Chrysler Corp.

Sheran, Justice.

Appeal from an order denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial.

Hardware Mutual Casualty Company, to be called Hardware, brought action against the Chrysler Corporation for approximately $100,000 paid by it as insurer of North Side Motors, Inc., to be called North Side, to settle personal injury and death claims arising out of a head-on col lision between a 1951 Chrysler automobile owned by North Side and a Pontiac driven by one Hilmer Johnson. The insurer’s theory was that the collision was caused by Chrysler’s negligence in equipping…