Selman v. Wallace

This was a suit for personal injuries to the plaintiff, a boy of fourteen years, when he was run down -by a motorcycle belonging to the defendant and ridden by a negro messenger-boy of the defendant, a druggist. At the time of the accident the plaintiff was preparing to board a street-car at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Washita Avenue, in the City of Atlanta, and it was alleged, and the testimony on behalf of the plaintiff was such as to show, that the defendant’s employee drove past the standing streetcar, in violation of law, and struck the plaintiff. The principal point at issue on the…