State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. v. Dodd

SIMPSON, Justice.

Frank Dodd, suing as administrator of the estate of his deceased son, Jack Dodd, filed a complaint claiming $250,000.00 damages under the Homicide Act, alleging that the defendants, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, T. M. Bradley, individually, and H. T. Bedsole, individually and Bradley & Bedsole Body Shop, a partnership composed of the aforesaid individuals, negligently caused injury to plaintiff’s decedent, who died as a result of an automobile accident on December 7, 1957. The gravamen of the complaint was that State Farm, as collision insurer of an…