Maryland Casualty Insurance v. Welchel

Carley, Judge.

Acting in response to instructions received by radio, a driver employed by appellee-defendant undertook to tow a truck to Coursey’s Automatic Transmissions (Coursey’s) from a location at the intersection of two specified roads. Later that evening, appellee became aware that his employee had mistakenly towed the wrong truck. The truck that appellee had been asked to tow to Coursey’s was actually located at a different intersection of the same two roads. Having discovered the mistake, appellee decided to allow the truck to remain at Coursey’s overnight and to notify the owner the…