Goforth v. Allstate Insurance Company

CRAVEN, Chief Judge.

This is an action on a judgment for damages rendered in the state trial; court against Robert L. Melton. Goforth here contends that Melton was an insured driver under a policy of automobile liability insurance issued by Allstate to Ernest R. Bartlett and that Allstate is liable, therefore, for the amount of the judgment.

At the conclusion of all of the evidence, in open court, the undersigned district judge dictated tentative findings of fact, which findings are now affirmed, except as they may be modified in this memorandum opinion.

The trial proceeded on the theory that…