FIDELITY AND CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. JACKSON

No. 8428.

297 F.2d 230 (1961)

FIDELITY AND CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK, Appellant, v. Corbett Garfield JACKSON, James Edward Floyd and Leonard Britt, Administrator of the Estate of James Edward Britt, Deceased, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 10, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Edward Johnson, Raleigh, N. C. (C. Woodrow Teague, Grady S. Patterson, Jr., and Teague, Johnson & Patterson, Raleigh, N. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Wesley C. Watts and John S. Gardner, Lumberton, N. C. (Watts & Gardner, Lumberton, N. C., on the brief), for appellee, Leonard Britt, Adm'r, etc.

Before SOPER, BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges.


BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The primary question here presented is whether, within the meaning of the automobile liability policy issued to Corbett Garfield Jackson by the plaintiff Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, the mother-in-law of the insured is his "relative". The policy, written on Jackson's Pontiac car, excepts from its liability coverage in Part I all obligation to defend and indemnify him against any claim for damages arising from his operation of an...

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