MFA Mutual Insurance v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a suit by a subrogated collision insurer for damages to the vehicle of its insured, Mrs. Mary Raxdale Maxwell. Mrs. Maxwell was proceeding in the west bound lane of Brown’s Bend Road in the. city of Alexandria. She collided with an automobile being backed out of a private driveway north of the road by defendant, John R. Cooper. At the site of the accident, Brown’s Ben Road is a two-lane, two-way asphalt road, relatively straight for some distance in either direction. A light rain was falling and the surface of the road was wet. But it was daylight and visibility was…