Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance v. Walker

I respectfully dissent from the judgment of reversal as it is my view that the jury was authorized to conclude that the owner of the vehicle gave a general permission to use his car over a two- or three-week period and that any prohibition on going to Florida was intended solely to get the owner’s son (as well as the car) home from college for the Easter holiday. It is undisputed that the driver had no reason to know of any restrictions placed on the car’s use by the owner. Consequently, the second permittee doctrine renders the owner’s express restriction nugatory.

Faith Joy Segal was…