State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Johnson

OPINION

CONTRERAS, Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether an exclusionary clause in an automobile insurance policy excluding liability coverage for bodily injury to “any ... family member of an insured residing in the same household as the insured” applied to a newlywed spouse who had not yet begun to live with the insured. 1 We conclude that the exclusionary clause does not apply and affirm the judgment.

The facts in this case are undisputed. On February 5, 1983, Sally Hastings Johnson flew with Glen Johnson to Las Vegas, Nevada, where they were married that afternoon. They spent the night…