Horace A. Arnold, as Administrator of the Estate of Robert Eugene Arnold v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

HASTINGS, Circuit Judge.

In a prior suit in an Indiana state court, plaintiff (appellee), as administrator of his son’s estate, recovered a default judgment of $15,000 against an individual who, while driving a truck with permission of the insured owner, negligently struck and killed plaintiff’s son. 1 In this present diversity action appellee seeks to recover from the defendant insurance company (appellant), an Illinois corporation and insurer of the owner of the truck, the amount of the default judgment. At the conclusion of all the evidence the trial court directed the jury to return a…