Davison's Auto Service Co. v. Security Insurance

Deen, Presiding Judge.

A Nissan automobile was stolen while leased to a female customer of Terry Brantley Greenbrier Rental & Sales, Inc. (Brantley), an Atlanta firm and an insured of appellee Security Insurance Company of Hartford (Security). When the lessee notified Brantley that the car had been stolen, Brantley notified Security, collected the insured value less the deductible, and signed ownership of the vehicle over to Security.

In the meanwhile, only a few days after the automobile had been leased and then stolen, a man apparently using a pseudonym brought a badly damaged automobile,…