Case ID: ga_262/html/0346-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Fletcher, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

S92A0183.
    EDWARDS et al. v. KESSLER.
    (419 SE2d 21)
    Decided July 10, 1992.
    
      Kent & Rackett, A. Martin Kent, R. Nathaniel Rackett III, for appellants.
    
      Thomas R. Taggart, R. Edward Reddick, Jr., for appellee.
   Fletcher, Justice.

The trial court denied a motion to dismiss the insurance carrier as a defendant, and the jury returned a verdict in favor of appellee against appellants, a motor carrier, its employee, and its insurance carrier. The sole issue on appeal is appellants’ challenge to the constitutionality of OCGA §§ 46-7-12 (e) and 46-7-58 (e) which permit an injured person to sue both the motor carrier and its insurance carrier in the same action. We held in Grissom v. Gleason, 262 Ga. 374 (418 SE2d 27) (1992), that the joinder provision does not violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution of Georgia of 1983. Accordingly, we affirm.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except Weltner, C. J., who dissents.