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Raines v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company

175 S.E.2d 299, 9 N.C. App. 27, 1970 N.C. App. LEXIS 1268
CourtCourt of Appeals of North Carolina
DecidedJuly 15, 1970
Docket7012DC325
StatusPublished
Cited by21 cases

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Raines v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, 175 S.E.2d 299, 9 N.C. App. 27, 1970 N.C. App. LEXIS 1268 (N.C. Ct. App. 1970).

Opinion

Campbell, J.

For the defendant to be obligated to pay the claim of the plaintiff here, the injury of the plaintiff’s deceased must have been, as the insurance contract states, “. . . caused by accident *30 and arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of the automobile.” We hold that the accidental shooting of Benjamin Raines, under the facts of this case, did not arise out of the ownership, maintenance or use of the automobile which is the vehicle insured under the defendant’s policy. No casual connection between the discharge of the pistol and the “ownership, maintenance or use” of the parked automobile was shown, and this is required to afford recovery under the policy. See Mason v. Celina Mutual, 161 Colo. 442, 423 P. 2d 24 (1967); National Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Bruecks, 179 Neb. 642, 139 N.W. 2d 821 (1966). Whisnant v. Insurance Co., 264 N.C. 303, 141 S.E. 2d 502 (1965) and Williams v. Insurance Co., 269 N.C. 235, 152 S.E. 2d 102 (1967) are factually distinguishable and a casual connection was shown.

Judgment was properly entered for the defendant in this case.

Affirmed.

Parker and Vaughn, JJ., concur.

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