CASCO INDEM. CO. v. GONSALVES

No. 2003-159-Appeal.

839 A.2d 546 (2004)

CASCO INDEMNITY COMPANY v. Kenneth GONSALVES.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

January 12, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Reynolds, for Plaintiff.

Ralph R. Liguori, Cumberland, for Defendant.

Present: WILLIAMS, C.J., FLANDERS, GOLDBERG, FLAHERTY and SUTTELL, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Can one man's trash be another man's uninsured motor vehicle? We think not. The defendant, Kenneth Gonsalves (Gonsalves), was injured when the carcass of a junked automobile that was perched atop two other junked automobiles fell on him. He appeals from a summary judgment declaring that he cannot collect under the uninsured motorist provision of his automobile insurance contract with the plaintiff, Casco Indemnity Company (Casco). This...

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