TRAVELERS INDEMNITY CO. OF HARTFORD, CONN. v. WELLS

No. 8818.

316 F.2d 770 (1963)

The TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, Appellant, v. Mildred Yancey WELLS, Executrix of the Estate of Willie Wells, Deceased, and Mildred Yancey Wells, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 22, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin B. Meade, Danville, Va. (Frank O. Meade, and Meade, Tate & Meade, Danville, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Don P. Bagwell, Halifax, Va. (Fred B. Gentry, Roanoke, Va., Tuck, Bagwell, Dillard & Mapp, Halifax, Va., and Gentry, Locke & Rakes, Roanoke, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before BOREMAN and BRYAN, Circuit Judges, and CRAVEN, District Judge.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The Uninsured Motorist Law of Virginia1 requires all automobile liability policies written in the State to contain an endorsement indemnifying, within prescribed limits2, the insured for injury, including death, tortiously caused by an uninsured motor vehicle. The question now is whether under this Law a guest injured in an accident by an uninsured driver may also recover upon...

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