Court Opinion

ID: 9522217
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:20:00.450463+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:02:24.474930
License: Public Domain

SULLIVAN, Judge,
concurring.
I join the decision to reverse the judgment below, notwithstanding the failure of the opinion to address the issue of the application, vel non, of the "loading or unloading" provision of the policy. I do so because Protective Insurance Co. v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. (4th Dist.1981) Ind.App., 423 N.E.2d 656 is the law of this case. Although I have strong reservations concerning the correctness of some portions of that earlier Court of Appeals decision, it held that Coca-Cola, as a matter of law, was not a "borrower" of the vehicle. Cf. Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co. v. Statesman Insurance Co. (1973) 260 Ind. 32, 291 N.E.2d 897, reversing the Appellate Court decision at 274 N.E.2d 419. The loading and unloading provision of the policy was therefore held not applicable to the transaction here involved. For this reason I concur.