Wetherill v. Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance

Citations

• 60 Pa. Super. 37
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 145

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Automobile insurance — Fall of car through open elevator shaft — Collision.</p> <p>Where an automobile is driven from a street to a point thirty feet inside of a building,-then halted and afterwards backed into an open elevator shaft and thus precipitated on to the. ground floor below, the owner may recover damages for the injuries sustained to the automobile, under a policy of insurance, which by its terms is “extended to cover damages to the automobile and equipment herein insured caused by collision with any other vehicle, or with any animal or object or any obstacle placed as a barrier; or in entering or leaving any building adjacent to any roadway; but nothing in this clause shall be held as making this company liable for damages caused by striking any portion of the gutter, roadbed, or ditch, or by striking street or a steam railroad rails or ties.”</p>