Rodine v. Iowa Home Mutual Casualty Company

Appellee asked damages for breach of an alleged oral contract with appellant indemnifying appellee against loss for damages caused to the property of others by reason of the operation of a truck owned and operated by appellee. The amount of the recovery sought was the expenditures appellee was required to make because of damages caused by an accident in which his truck was involved about December 22, 1952.

■ The substance of the cause of action stated in the second amended petition of appellee, hereafter designated petition, is that appellant through Sam Arnold, its authorized local selling…