Gedeon v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Cohen,

An automobile liability insurance policy was issued to appellant by appellee-insurance company on May 18, 1955, insuring Mm against liability for bodily injury to one person in the amount of $10,000. On August 11, 1955, wMle the said automobile was being driven by appellant, it was involved in an accident in which appellant’s wife, a passenger in the car, was Mlled. Appellant subsequently qualified as administrator of his wife’s estate and, in such representative capacity, instituted suit under the Wrongful Death Act naming himself as defendant-tortfeasor.1…