Legal Opinion · Dissent

Blue Ridge Insurance Company v. Haun

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided November 16, 1954Published

1Dissent

*533. Neil, Chief Justice

(dissenting).

I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion which relieves the plaintiff in error, Insurance Company, from any and all liability for damages resulting from the negligence of the policyholder.

The question of whether or not the vehicle that was being towed by the defendant’s automobile is a trailer is not a factual issue. All parties in interest concede that it was not a trailer, but was an automobile. In the light of this admitted fact the case should not be decided upon a mere dictionary definition as was the case in Waddey v. Maryland Gas. Co., 171…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Waddey v. Maryland Casualty Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1937
  2. Hahn v. Home Life Ins. Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1935
  3. National Bank of Commerce v. New York Life Ins.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1944
  4. Universal Life Ins. v. LillardTennessee Supreme Court · 1950
  5. Laster v. American Nat. Ins. Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1936

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