American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Jones Transfer & Storage Co.

Appellee, Jones Transfer & Storage Company, Incorporated, is a common carrier operating a line of motortrucks through Cameron County, and as such procured from appellant, American Fidelity & Casualty Company, an “automobile” insurance policy in which the insurer obligated itself to defend all suits brought against the assured for loss or damage occurring to freight belonging to others while being transported by the assured in its motortrucks, and to pay off all judgments obtained against assured in such suits. .The policy was such as is prescribed by the statute to be carried by common ear-*1055rie…