AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY v. HEAD

No. 45906.

240 So.2d 280 (1970)

AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY v. Mrs. Tom L. HEAD, Jr.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 19, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watkins & Eager, Elizabeth Hulen, Jackson, for appellant.

Tennyson & Britt, Jackson, for appellee.


GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice:

This case involves the question of whether the "physical contact" requirement used in defining "hit and run vehicle" in the uninsured motorists clause of an automobile liability policy is satisfied when a soft-drink bottle thrown from an unknown automobile strikes the insured's automobile and injures the insured.

On April 4, 1964, the appellee, Mrs. Tom L. Head, Jr., was the named insured...

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