Legal Opinion
St. Charles v. Allstate Insurance
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided June 8, 1977No. 2 CA-CIV 2413PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RICHMOND, Judge.
The trial court in granting summary judgment for appellee interpreted the word “automobile” in an insurance policy exclusion to include a motorcycle. We disagree and reverse.
The facts are undisputed. On October 16, 1975, Joseph Louis St. Charles was fatally injured when his motorcycle was struck by an uninsured automobile. The motorcycle was not specified as an owned vehicle in a policy issued by the appellee-insurer to appellant, surviving spouse of Mr. St. Charles. Allstate refused to pay appellant’s claim under the uninsured motorist provisions of the policy on the…
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