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AMERICAN FIDELITY FIRE INS. CO. v. ALLSTATE INS. CO.

184 S.E.2d 11 (1971)

212 Va. 302

AMERICAN FIDELITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Corporation v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY and Ralph Earl Haddock.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 11, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick P. Aucamp, Norfolk, (Rixey & Rixey, Norfolk, on the brief), for plaintiff in error.

John B. Preston, Norfolk (Irvin W. Cubine, Jr., Virginia Beach, Preston, Preston, Wilson & Mason, Norfolk, on the brief), for defendants in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON, HARRISON, COCHRAN, and HARMAN, JJ.

HARMAN, Justice.

The question here is the proper interpretation of an assault and battery clause in an automobile liability insurance policy.

The policy was issued by American Fidelity Fire Insurance Company (American), covering a vehicle owned by Joseph E. Haddock (Joseph).

Ralph Earl Haddock (Ralph), Joseph's son, while a permissive user of this vehicle on April 28, 1967, was stopped and arrested for reckless driving by James J. Sciortino, a Virginia...

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