Hooper v. Maryland Casualty Co.

Omnibus or extended coverage clauses in policies of automobile liability insurance have provoked much litigation in other jurisdictions in cases where employees were driving motor vehicles belonging to their employers. Annotation: 5 A.L.R. (2d) 600-668. But diligent research by counsel and the Court fails to uncover any North Carolina decision directly pertinent to the problems posed by the plaintiff’s appeal. Since the present record makes these problems so fundamentally factual in nature, however, there is no occasion at this time for us to choose between the differing constructions put…