Shinabarger v. Citizens Mutual Insurance

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• holding that the record did not establish a causal connection between use of the vehicle and death of driver who was shot as he handed shotgun to passenger after shooting at a deer
• holding that the record did not establish a causal connection between use of the vehicle and death of driver who was shot as he handed shotgun to passenger after shooting at a deer
• the decedent was killed as he was entering an automobile when a companion’s rifle accidentally discharged as it was being passed to another person sitting in the car
• \[C]ases construing the phrase `arising out of the use of a motor vehicle' uniformly require that the injured person establish a causal connection between the use of the motor vehicle and the injury.\
• “Where use of the vehicle is one of the causes of the injury, a sufficient causal connection is established even though there exists an independent cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).