Schaal v. Great Lakes Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance

On February 2, 1957, one Judie Dobyns, then eighteen years old, was driving the plaintiffs automobile on Highway 42 in Manitowoc county, with the permission and consent of the plaintiff. She lost control of the car and struck a tree, damaging the automobile to the extent stipulated. Judie Dobyns had no driver’s license, a fact which the plaintiff knew when he permitted her to use the car.

At the time of the accident there was in force a policy of automobile collision insurance issued by defendant to plaintiff and covering the car in question, which policy provides, among other things:

“Coverage…