COLLINS v. AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 141, Docket 23658.

230 F.2d 416 (1956)

Joe W. COLLINS, as Committee for Travious Riddle Collins, Incompetent, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Behrens, New York City (Gay & Behrens, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

C. J. Pernicone, New York City (Richard E. Joyce and John F. X. Finn, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and MEDINA and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Chief Judge.

This is an action by the plaintiff, Collins, as a committee for Travious Riddle Collins, an incompetent, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by his ward when struck on a street in New Orleans, La., by an automobile owned and operated by one Edward Duffy. The complaint further alleges that at the time of the accident Duffy was insured by a policy of liability insurance issued by the defendant and that this direct action against the...

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