Legal Opinion
Hinton v. Interstate Guaranty Insurance
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 24, 1997No. S96G1100PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Sears, Justice.
We granted certiorari in Hinton v. Interstate Guaranty Ins. Co.1 to consider whether a farm tractor can be an uninsured motor vehicle for purposes of the uninsured motorist statute2 when, in the course of a nonagricultural pursuit, it collides with another vehicle on a public highway. We answer this question in the affirmative.
Plaintiff Lynn Hinton suffered personal injuries when her car collided with a farm tractor owned by defendant Billy Kendrick. Kendrick and others were using the tractor to tow a 14-foot wide mobile home on a county road. The tractor was not registered as…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Moore v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company GroupSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1967
- Smith v. Commercial Union Assurance Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1980
- Chase v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1982
- Wages v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1974
- McDaniel v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceSupreme Court of Virginia · 1965
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's of London v. Rucker Construction Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2007
- Coker v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2003
- Insurance Department v. St. Paul Fire & Casualty InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2002
- Castellanos v. Travelers Home & Marine Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2014
- Smith v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.Colorado Court of Appeals · 2017
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