Farmers Insurance Exchange v. Moores

On May 9, 1952, at about 1:40 A.M., the defendant Burton D. Moores was driving his 1949 Ford automobile southwesterly on U. S. Highway 30, in Harrison County. About four miles south of Woodbine he drove on the wrong side of the highway with the result that he had a collision with a 1950 Pontiac automobile owned and driven by James S. Dempster. Mr. Dempster and his mother lost their lives. His sister, Francos Dempster, was a passenger in the Dempster car and was seriously injured. Plaintiff Farmers Insurance Exchange carried collision insurance on the Dempster car and under assignment paid his…