· 1/7/1964
Travelers Insurance v. Safeguard Insurance
Citations
- 195 N.E.2d 86
- 346 Mass. 622
- 1964 Mass. LEXIS 843
How courts have described this case
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- finding that store employee who accidentally closed car door on customer’s fingers was engaged in activity “too casual and too remote from the operation of the vehicle”
- closing of car door on injured person’s hand was too remote to constitute injury arising out of the “use” of the automobile
- loading groceries into automobile was not use of motor vehicle for coverage purposes
- grocery store employee who closed car door on customer's fingers was making too remote a \use\ of the vehicle to qualify as an additional insured
- accident not covered because delivery boy’s use of vehicle too remote and casual in case where injury resulted when he slammed insured’s hand in door after loading insured’s purchases into car
- store employee who accidentally closed a car door on a customer’s fingers while loading groceries into the car was engaged in an activity “too casual and too remote from the operation of the vehicle” to constitute a “use” for purposes of coverage
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Wilkins, Spalding, Whittemore, Cutter, Spiegel
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