Court Opinion

ID: 9849320
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:38:21.063167+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:17.031264
License: Public Domain

Beasley, Judge,
concurring specially.
I agree but for an additional reason. Here the vehicle was being used by appellant and others to transport them to a place for the purchase of marijuana and to await the consummation of such a transaction. Its use, therefore, was for a criminal purpose. I do not believe the contracting parties agreed that the insurance would cover an injury arising out of an illegal use of the vehicle. Such an agreement, even if it were not contrary to public policy, would tend to implicate one or both parties in any subsequent criminal activity in which the vehicle was involved. Consequently, even if it can be said that the injury here “arose out of’ the use of the vehicle, this particular use would not be a covered one at least with respect to a party engaged in the criminal conduct and injured in the course of it.
I am authorized to state that Judge Pope joins in this special concurrence.