State Farm Mutual Insurance v. Judge

WIEAND, Judge:

In this appeal from a declaratory judgment, we are presented with a complex issue of automobile insurance coverage.

On or about November 19, 1988, Mitchell Dean Emery was driving a 1985 Camaro, owned by Terry E. Cook, when it struck and killed a pedestrian. The 1985 Camaro was insured under a policy of automobile insurance which had been issued by State Farm Mutual Insurance Company (State Farm). Terry E. Cook was the former boyfriend of Mitchell Emery’s mother, Coleen L. Michael. Cook and Michael had separated in August, 1988, when Cook moved to New York, where he accepted…