Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. You should write an incorrect option. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: when it bought and damaged the railcars, no "accident" occurred. Like the property owner in Meri-wether, Plaintiff may have been mistaken about its property rights, but that mistake, according to the Defendant, does not amount to an "accident" as that term is commonly understood. This Court agrees with the Defendant. Although there is language in Glens Falls that would seem to indicate that a mistake or error in judgment is tantamount to an "accident," such a reading of the case would bring it into an inherent conflict with that court's earlier decision in Meriwether. This Court has a duty to avoid interpreting the cases from the Georgia Court of Appeals in a manner that would bring about s.uch a conflict. See e.g. Garrett v. Heisler, 149 Ga.App. 240, 253 S.E.2d 863, 867 (1979) (<HOLDING>). A fair reading of Meriwether leads to the
Holding statements: (A) recognizing usefulness of lower court opinions (B) holding that when mississippi adopted a statute modeled after a georgia enactment decisions of the georgia courts did not bind mississippi courts in interpretation of the statute (C) recognizing the supreme courts holding in ferber (D) recognizing courts duty to reconcile opinions from the georgia supreme court (E) holding unconstitutional the provision in a georgia abortion statute limiting abortions to georgia residents
A:
recognizing usefulness of lower court opinions