Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Burke County School District
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 3, 1997No. S96G1005PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hines, Justice.
We granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals to consider its decision in Burke County School District v. Roberts, 220 Ga. App. 510 (469 SE2d 529) (1996) that the Roberts’ son’s death arose from the “use” of the school bus, thereby precluding certain insurance coverage. For the reasons which follow, we reverse that determination.
In 1986, five-year-old Rodriguez Roberts was a kindergarten student in the Burke County schools, and he rode the school district’s buses to and from school. The bus picked him up across from his home but dropped him off after school about a half mile…
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