Court Opinion

ID: 9627452
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 08:43:51.585026+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:06:45.903786
License: Public Domain

HOWARD, Judge,
dissenting.
The majority has taken the language of the insurance agent’s affidavit, which is very clear, and twisted it to imply a denial of coverage. In paragraph 5 the agent says he, the agent and not the company, “no longer” has any coverage for Power-craft, and that the president should contact another agent who now handles the coverage because he, the agent, is no longer doing any business with Powercraft. In other words, he told the president to call somebody else because he was no longer handling Powercraft’s business. How do you get a denial of coverage out of that? The trial courts are already crowded enough with meritless cases. They do not need us to create imaginary issues of material fact. If the evidence before us had been the only evidence adduced at trial, the appellee would have been entitled to a directed verdict. In such cases summary judgment is proper. See Wright-Miller-Kane, Federal Practice & Procedure, Vol. 10A, § 2725, p. 104.
I would affirm.