Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Blackwell
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Elberton — Judge Grogan. March 13, 1914.
1Opinion of the CourtRussell, C. J.
1. The trial judge did not err in sustaining the demurrer to the twenty-third paragraph of the answer, wherein the defendant pleaded that the failure to comply with the “blow-post law,” as embodied in sections 2675, 2676, and 2677 of the Civil Code, was not, as a matter of law, negligence on the part of the defendant relatively to the transaction in question, and in thereafter striking that paragraph of the answer. Seaboard Air-Line Ry. v. Blackwell, 143 Ga. 237 (84 S. E. 472).
2. Whether the plaintiff’s son, by exercising ordinary care for his own safety, could have avoided the injury which…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. BlackwellSupreme Court of Georgia · 1915
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