Hayward v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Loring, Justice.

In a suit for damages to his person and his Plymouth coach, George C. Hayward recovered a verdict of $7,101.93 against Ted Vollbrecht December 17, 1938. The judgment entered pursuant thereto on September 16, 1939, was affirmed upon appeal to this court. Hayward v. Vollbrecht, 208 Minn. 191, 293 N. W. 216. Prior to Hayward’s suit against Vollbrecht, the Home Insurance Company of New York, appellant here, paid Hayward $550, representing the damage to his car under a policy of collision insurance carried by Hayward, and that company took a subrogation receipt and assignment from…