Latham v. Mountain States Mutual Casualty Co.

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted in a suit for damages brought under the uninsured motorist provisions of an insurance policy. The decisive question on this appeal concerns the proper interpretation of the “hit-and-run automobile” coverage included in the uninsured motorist provisions of the policy.

The plaintiffs in the trial court, Sarah Latham and Nora Carter, alleged that while their car was stopped in a line of traffic in obedience to the command of a police officer, a car immediately behind them was struck from the rear by a pick-up truck and propelled…