Southern Railway Co. v. Reed

Stephens, ,T.

J. A statement that a person fails í.o exorcise ordinary care is equivalent to a statement that he is negligent. Since the mere negligence of a plaintiff, without reference to its causal connection with the injury received by him, and -without reference to its degree as respects the negligence of the defendant, is not sufficient to bar a recovery, the court properly refused the defendant’s requests to charge which embodied the propositions that if the plaintiff failed-generally to exercise ordinary care or failed to exercise ordinary care in going upon the defendant’s…