Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Odom

ATWELL, District Judge.

J. W. Jones was local distributor for the' Gulf Oil Products Company and also the owner of the Gable Lunch Room. Both businesses were carried on at Vernon, Tex. He had as his manager in the lunch room, G. T. Odom.

Jones was covered by a policy in an amount within the jurisdiction of this court as agent for the Gulf Company, in whom the policy also, vested. Jones gave his consent to the manager of his lunch room, Odom, to use the truck which the policy covered, to make a pleasure trip and to pass out circulars advertising the lunch room. Dorothy Freeman, Marie Johnston,…