Bertrand v. Board of County Commissioners of Park County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that sovereign immunity provisions must be strictly construed
• adopting definition of motor vehicle in Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language 930 (2d college ed. 1974)
• reversing the trial court’s determination that a road grader operated on a highway was not a motor vehicle and remanding the case with directions to apply the plain and ordinary meaning of the term
• “[T]he interpretation of one statute by reference to an unrelated statute is an unreliable means of ascertaining legislative intent.”
• claim for injuries to a rider who was thrown from her horse when it was spooked by a road grader that allegedly was operating at an excessive speed was not barred by the GIA
• analyzing meaning of “motor vehicle” under the governmental immunity act

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