Auto-Owners Insurance Co. v. Palm Beach County

SHANNON, Judge.

This appeal is from a final decree in a declaratory action, wherein the plaintiff-appellant, a liability insurance carrier, sought a declaration of its rights and liabilities under such a policy as to the defendant-appellees.

Edward B. Sutherland, a Palm Beach County fire chief, was returning to Florida from a school or convention which he had attended as part of his occupational training, upon authorization of the County. Sutherland was driving his own automobile, and was receiving travel allowances from the County. He was involved in an accident in Walnut, Mississippi, as a…