Furr v. North Carolina

How later courts describe this case

• upholding award of damages covering period between defendant’s successful appeal and the retrial
• emotionally-disturbed passenger who displaced owner-driver and drove car did not intend to deprive her permanently of the vehicle
• decision includes long list of cases from other jurisdictions supporting the rule as we have stated it
• “Solicitation of another to commit a felony is a crime in North Carolina, even though the solicitation is of no effect and the crime solicited is never committed.”
• "Only where the deviation from the use consented to amounts to `theft or the like' will coverage be precluded under the insured's policy."
• disturbed passenger, who has grabbed a steering wheel from insured but did not intend to deprive the insured permanently of the vehicle, was driving with implied permission of insured and was covered under insurance policy