PENINSULA INS. CO. v. KNIGHT

[No. 355, September Term, 1968.]

254 Md. 461 (1969)

255 A.2d 55

THE PENINSULA INSURANCE COMPANY v. KNIGHT, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 1, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Pollitt, with whom were Pollitt, Hughes & Bahen on the brief, for appellant.

John W.T. Webb, with whom were Thomas L. Lilly and Webb, Burnett & Simpson on the brief, for appellees Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and Tolson.

George J. Goldsborough, Jr., for appellees Robert L. Knight, Sr. and Frances A. Knight.

Submitted on brief by Ronald G. Rayne and Perdue, Owrutsky & Whitehead for appellee Ronald Lester Knight.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and MARBURY, McWILLIAMS, FINAN and SINGLEY, JJ.


McWILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Our task here is to construe, in the context of facts to be related, an exclusionary clause in a policy of insurance issued by the appellant (Peninsula) to the appellee, Ronald Lester Knight (Ronald). Peninsula denied coverage to Ronald because the claims against him arose out of bodily injury to persons "related [to him] by blood or marriage and * * * [who are] resident[s] of the same household as [Ronald]," namely...

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