Court Opinion

ID: 9854706
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:12:16.94605+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:16.361021
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Banke, Judge,
dissenting.
It seems to me that it violates common sense to conclude that a person who enters into and alights from a vehicle for the sole purpose of checking its registration is “using” that vehicle. To “use” an object means to employ it or to avail oneself of it for some purpose. See Webster’s New International Dictionary, 2d ed., Unabridged. This case is much weaker for the plaintiff than was Leverette v. Aetna Cas. &c. Co., supra, wherein the plaintiff was standing on his vehicle to pick plums. I would reverse the judgment of the trial court.
I am authorized to state that Presiding Judge Quillian, Judge Birdsong and Judge Pope, join in this dissent.