Mathis v. Employers' Fire Ins. Co.

Russell Mathis was injured when the motorcycle he was riding collided with an automobile operated by an uninsured motorist. Mathis claims that he was an "insured" under the uninsured motorist provisions of an automobile liability insurance policy issued by Employers' Fire Insurance Company to his stepfather, Don Hollis, even though he was not living in the same house with his stepfather, but was living in a house with his mother, who at the time of the accident was separated from, and later divorced from, Hollis. The trial court concluded, as a matter of law, that Mathis was not an "insured"…