Phelps v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

This is an appeal from a final order in a declaratory judgment proceeding brought by Anna L. Phelps against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. In the order, the trial court held that Anna Phelps was not entitled to coverage under an automobile insurance policy issued by State Farm in which she was the named insured. Finding that the trial' court erred, we will reverse.

The dispute arose out of a single-car accident that occurred on-June 10, 1989, while Anna Phelps was driving an automobile owned by her sister, Mary Catherine Phelps, and insured by Nationwide Mutual Insurance…