Commercial Standard Ins. v. Gordon's Transports, Inc.

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was the insurer upon a public liability issued in the name of A. W. Gordon of Memphis, who was engaged in a long-haul trucking business. One of the trucks covered by the policy being involved in an accident, a suit followed in Illinois, resulting in a default judgment against the appellee corporation, which it subsequently paid, and for the recovery of which it sued the insurer, and, upon the reformation of the contract, obtained the judgment which is here assailed.

The assigned errors are many. The insurer asserts it had issued no policy to the corporate…