Vetrano v. Aetna Life & Casualty

JUNELL, Justice.

This appeal presents the question whether a motor boat is a “vehicle” under a Texas Homeowners Broad Form Insurance policy which provides that unscheduled personal property is insured against loss by “aircraft and vehicles.”

Anthony L. Vetrano Jr., plaintiff in the court below and appellant here, was the insured under a policy issued by Standard Fire Insurance Co., defendant/appellee. Vetrano and two companions went on what was to be a several-day fishing trip to the Chandelier Islands in the Gulf of Mexico with Fred Toft on Toft’s twenty-three foot Seacraft boat. On the first…