Court Opinion

ID: 9849920
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:49:39.605922+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:29.122810
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Felton, Chief Judge,
concurring specially. An examination of the policy of insurance attached to the plaintiff’s petition reveals that it insures the members of the general public against personal injury or death or damage to property resulting from the negligent operation of school buses as provided for in Section 3 of the 1949 act (Ga. L. 1949, pp. 1155, 1156; Code, Ann., § 32-431). The unequivocal allegations of the petition show that this is an action arising out of the negligence of the bus driver and others and it should not be otherwise construed. Under the decision of the majority of this court in Cotton States Mut. Ins. Co. v. Keefe, 100 Ga. App. 715, I believe that the defendant company is subject to direct suit in behalf of the school child as a member of the general public injured as a result of the negligent operation of the school buses so insured, and the court did not err in overruling the general demurrer to the petition.