Opinion ID: 1872780
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Heading: whether the injuries arose out of the use of a motor vehicle

Text: McKnight and Khirieh argue, as proof by substantial evidence that their injuries arose out of another's maintenance or use of a motor vehicle, by posing a question: How does a truck bench seat find its way onto an interstate highway, in heavy traffic in Birmingham, other than by falling off some moving vehicle? McKnight and Khirieh's argument is that the existence of the truck seat on Interstate Highway 20/59 in the midst of Birmingham's lunch hour traffic, is more than substantial evidence that their injuries arose out of the use of a motor vehicle. McKnight and Khirieh argue that common sense dictates that any contrary inferences border on the improbable if not the impossible. To show substantial evidence on this issue, McKnight and Khirieh need only produce evidence of such weight and quality that fair-minded persons in the exercise of impartial judgment can reasonably infer the existence of the fact sought to be proved. West, supra . We agree with McKnight and Khirieh that their evidence that the truck seat was in the highway, given the undisputed circumstances of time and place surrounding it, is substantial evidence that their injuries arose from another's use of a motor vehicle.