Fischer v. Travelers Insurance Co.

GEORGE JANVIER, Judge pro tern.

This is a suit on a policy of automobile collision insurance. The insured car sustained extensive collision damage. The insurer took the position that the cost of repairing the car would exceed its value prior to the accident and that, accordingly, all that the insured was entitled to was the amount representing the prior value less the deductible of $50.00 as provided in the policy, and that, since the loss was total, it,( the- insurer, was entitled to whatever salvage there might be.

*818The claimant-plaintiff in this suit insisted that the car previous to the…