Savannah Electric Co. v. Mullikin
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. August 16, 1905. Mullikin brought his action to recover for a personal injury, alleging, that at the time of the injury he was a passenger on a car of defendant company; that while seated on said car, the overhead trolley-wire parted, causing flashes of electricity to play around the car and to frighten the passengers thereon: that the motorman in charge of said car cried out for all persons to leave the car, and…
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Action for damages. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. August 16, 1905. Mullikin brought his action to recover for a personal injury, alleging, that at the time of the injury he was a passenger on a car of defendant company; that while seated on said car, the overhead trolley-wire parted, causing flashes of electricity to play around the car and to frighten the passengers thereon: that the motorman in charge of said car cried out for all persons to leave the car, and thereupon plaintiff proceeded to the side of said car for the purpose of alighting, but just as he stepped upon the…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. The first ground of the amended motion is an attack upon the following portion of the court’s charge to the jury: “Because the court charged the jury as follows: 'The plaintiff can not recover if the company shall make it appear to the satisfaction of the jury that its employees exercised extraordinary care and diligence.’ ” The motion complains that this is error, “in that it required the company, in order to defeat a recovery, to show to the satisfaction ■of the jury, instead of by a preponderance of evidence, that its employees exercised extraordinary…
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