CARTER v. AMERICAN FIRE AND CAS. CO.

Nos. 530, 531, 1322 and 1323.

219 So.2d 462 (1969)

Frank CARTER and Dorothy Carter, His Wife, Appellants, v. AMERICAN FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellee (Two Cases). Hattie BAKER, Appellant, v. AMERICAN FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellee (Two Cases).

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Westley W. Silvian, of Burdick & Silvian and Richard T. Stierer, West Palm Beach, for appellants.

H.L. Cooper, Jr., of O'Connell & Cooper, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


OWEN, Judge.

These cases involve a question of coverage under uninsured motorists insurance. The trial court rendered judgment for the insurer in each of the cases, determining that the insureds' conduct had brought the insureds within an exclusion clause of the policy.1 We conclude that the able trial judge erred in this regard, and we therefore reverse.

Appellants each sustained bodily injury when the Carter vehicle in which...

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