Nami v. Peninsular Fire Insurance

REDMANN, Judge.

Defendant personal liability insurer appeals from a judgment which awarded plaintiff damages for injury to his hand from a gunshot wound suffered at his grandfather’s house from an automatic pistol belonging to the grandfather.

Plaintiff’s petition alleges, and he and his grandfather testified at trial, that the grandfather accidentally discharged the pistol while handing it to plaintiff. But medical records introduced by plaintiff (without objection) and testimony introduced by defendant show that plaintiff had told two treating physicians that he had accidentally shot himself.

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