State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Department of Public Institutions

Ducker, Judge:

The Claimant, by virtue of subrogation to the rights of Carroll E. Walters, who was the owner of the automobile for which damages are claimed, alleges that on April 2, 1967, in Mounds-ville, West Virginia, Arthur Franklin Carver escaped from confinement in the State penitentiary and went to the residence of Carroll E. Walters and took and drove said Walters’ 1967 Chevrolet automobile about half a city block and collided with a 1961 Chrysler automobile driven by one James C. Meeks, causing damage to the Walters’ automobile in the sum of $1,002.24

The main facts which are…