Thompson v. Georgia Power Company

The first question for decision is whether under the act of 1937 there is a statutory definition of motor vehicle, and if so then the question arises as to what that definition was intended to include. The majority opinion holds that there is no statutory definition of motor vehicle under the act of 1937 or prior acts, because the act of 1937 repealed all other definitions of motor vehicles in laws relating to licensing of vehicles, etc., and pitches its conclusion on the general definition of “motor vehicles.” The purposes of the act of 1927 (Ga. L. 1927, p. 226), are stated in the caption…