Benjamin E. Davis v. American Preferred Insurance Company

9 F.3d 1551 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Benjamin E. DAVIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN PREFERRED INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. No. 92-15592. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Aug. 12, 1993. Decided Oct. 14, 1993. Before: SNEED, POOLE and TROTT, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Benjamin Davis appeals the district court's award of summary judgment to American States Preferred Insurance Company (American). Davis sought a declaratory judgment that a homeowners policy American issued covered injuries he sustained. We now affirm. 3 A district court's grant of summary judgment, and its interpretation of an insurance contract, are reviewed de novo. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Davis, 937 F.2d 1415, 1417-18 (9th Cir.1991). 4 We reject each of Davis's several arguments. First, we reject the argument that American's policy exclusion for property "rented to an insured" applies only to property rented during the…