Patterson v. Stephenson's Tree Service, LLC

L Phillip Patterson appeals a summary judgment that dismissed his claim against Maxum Indemnity Co. on the basis of the auto exclusion in its Commercial General Liability (“CGL”) policy covering Stephenson’s Tree Service LLC. We affirm.

Factual and Procedural Background

In October 2009, Patterson was standing on a neighbor’s property in Morehouse Parish, watching Stephenson’s cut trees. One of Stephenson’s trucks got stuck in the mud; employees fastened a “snatch block” (a kind of pulley) to a nearby tree and ran a line through it, attaching one end of the line to the disabled truck and the…