Dickey v. General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

The plaintiff, a lawyer by profession, on August 3, 1932, was en route to his summer home near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In the course of that journey his chauffeur was killed while riding in the tonneau of plaintiff’s automobile, then being operated by the plaintiff, who had shortly before temporarily relieved the chauffeur of driving the car.

At the time of the accident plaintiff was the holder of two policies of insurance, one with the defendant in the sum of $5,000 under which the company agreed, inter alia, to indemnify the assured against loss by reason of…