Great Central Insurance Co. v. Harris

This appeal is from an order in a declaratory judgment action determining that, as to damages arising out of a collision involving a garage customer’s car driven by a garage employee, insurance coverage must be provided by the car owner’s insurer and not by the garage liability insurer.

According to the record, at about 7:10 p.m. on February 28, 1973, Daniel Tipton drove his recently acquired 1966 Chevrolet Impala into the Owens Oil Service Station, owned and operated by Edward J. Harris, in La Salle, Illinois. Tipton testified that after purchasing gasoline for his car from an attendant, he…