Bauman v. Gilbertson

The validity of an exclusion clause in a policy of automobile liability insurance, which excludes the named insured from coverage, was upheld by this court in Frye v. Theige (1948), 253 Wis. 596, 34 N. W. (2d) 793, 50 A. L. R. (2d) 124. In Musselman v. Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. (1954), 266 Wis. 387, 63 N. W. (2d) 691, we again carefully reviewed the question and adhered to the holding in Frye v. Theige, supra, with two justices dissenting. Thereafter, a similar exclusion clause was upheld in Havlik v. Bittner (1956), 272 Wis. 71, 74 N. W. (2d) 798. The opinion in this latter case was written…