Toler v. Country Mutual Insurance Co.

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• holding a causal connection existed between use of the truck and the injury to plaintiff, who was injured when a rifle accidentally fired and shattered the windshield as insured attempted to empty gun chamber before loading rifle into his truck
• holding a causal connection existed between use of the truck and the injury to plaintiff, who was injured when a rifle accidentally fired and shattered the windshield as insured attempted to empty gun chamber before loading rifle into his truck
• \loading and unloading\ clause held at issue with inquiry whether there was a causal connection between injury and \loading or unloading\
• while hunter attempted to unload ammunition from his gun while outside the vehicle, the gun discharged injuring his companion
• “[T]here is no requirement of any actual physical contact between the vehicle and the instrumentality that was the immediate cause of the injury, here, the rifle held by defendant Lingle.”
• the insured was “loading” a rifle onto his insured truck when he removed rifle shells outside the truck 15 in preparation for loading the rifle onto the truck and the rifle accidently discharged

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).