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188 Misc. 199

Dreiblatt v. Taylor

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · decided 1947-01-09

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““The attendant, assuming the watcher to be such, was not shown to be actually within or upon the automobile, or so near thereto as to be able to observe a theft of the contents. The term ‘unattended’ has a connotation of lack of due diligence or protection which would exclude coverage.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including JMP Associates, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

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Decided 1947-01-09

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1997

2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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Per Curiam.

¶1Memorandum Under the circumstances disclosed by the record here, the evidence that plaintiffs’ automobile was watched from the front window of an apartment on the first floor of an apartment house before which it was parked, does not show attendance of the vehicle within the intent of the policy excluding “ loss of the property insured herein from road vehicles of every description when such vehicles are left unattended.” The attendant, assuming the watcher to be such, was not shown to be actually within or upon the automobile, or so near thereto as to be able to observe a theft of the contents. The term “ unattended ” has a connotation of lack of due diligence or protection which would exclude coverage. (See Kinscherf Co., Inc., v. St. Paul F. & M. Ins. Co., 234 App. Div. 385.)

¶2The judgment should be reversed, with $30 costs, and judgment directed for the defendant dismissing the complaint on the merits, with costs.

¶3Hammer, Shientag and Hecht, JJ., concur.

¶4Judgment reversed, etc.

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