The Georgia Court of Appeals declared both sides correct in reversing two trial court orders in a Cherokee County car wreck case, but the plaintiff—who can now pursue damages in excess of a now-scrapped policy-limit settlement—is the clear winner, if the opinion stands.

Ruling in dual appeals, the panel first said the lower court should not have held that the parents of the at-fault driver, then 28, were vicariously liable for the injuries she allegedly caused.