Savannah Transit Co. v. Odum

Hall, Judge.

A common carrier has a duty to use extraordinary diligence to protect its passengers from known or reasonably observable danger from outside sources. This duty of extraordinary care is owed towards passengers, of a bus from the time they board the bus, and not just when the bus is in motion. Metropolitan Transit System, Inc. v. Burton, 103 Ga. App. 688, 690 (120 SE2d 663). The failure to warn a passenger of such danger may amount to negligence. Georgia R. &c. Co. v. Murphy, 28 Ga. App. 173 (110 SE 680); Yellow Cab Co. v. Carmichael, 33 Ga. App. 364, 368 (126 SE 269), annotated in…