Allstate Ins. Co. v. Skelton

How courts have described this case

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• stating that when material facts are undisputed, an appeal concerns the application of the law to those facts and no presumption of correctness attaches to the trial court's judgment
• indicating that when essentially undisputed facts are presented and the parties' controversy involves questions of law for the court to consider, the trial court's judgment carries no presumption of correctness
• “No reasonable standard would suggest that an automobile insurer intended to insure against such acts.”
• `[W]here the facts before the trial court are essentially undisputed and the controversy involves questions of law for the court to consider, the [trial] court's judgment carries no presumption of correctness.'
• insured’s injuries from battery by another motorist after they had exited their vehicles did not “arise out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of an uninsured auto”
• '[W]here the facts before the trial court are essentially undisputed and the controversy involves questions of law for the court to consider, the [trial] court's judgment *Page 255 carries no presumption of correctness.'

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