Black & White Cab Co. v. Smith

1. It is well settled that where the pleadings and the evidence raise the issue of whether the plaintiff by the exercise of ordinary care could have avoided the consequences of the defendant’s negligence, it is the duty of the trial judge to give this principle in charge to the jury without request. Atlanta &c. Ry. Co. v. Gardner, 122 Ga. 82 (49 S. E. 818); Deen v. Wheeler, 7 Ga. App. 507 (67 S. E. 212) ; Jackson v. Georgia R. &c. Co., 7 Ga. App. 644 (67 S. E. 898); Georgia Ry. & Power Co. v. Freeney, 22 Ga. App. 457 (96 S. E. 575); Central of Ga. Ry. Co. v. Reid, 23 Ga. App. 694 (99 S. E.…