Savannah Electric Co. v. Pritchard
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Charlton. Chatham superior court. November 14, 1908.
1Opinion of the Court
Fish, C-. J.
1. Upon the trial of an action against a street-railway company for an alleged willful and unjustifiable assault made upon tbe plaintiff, while a passenger on a ear of the defendant, by the motorman engaged in running such ear, where no negligence of the motor*748man or other employee of the defendant was alleged, the law relating to the extraordinary care due by railroad companies to passengers was not involved. Atlanta Consol. St. Ry. Co. v. Keeny, 99 Ga. 266 (4), (25 S. E. 629, 33 L. R. A. 824) ; Seaboard Air-Line Ry. v. O’Quinn, 124 Ga. 357, 359 (2), (52 S. E. 427, 2 L. R. A. (N.…
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- Atlanta Con. St. Railway Co. v. KeenySupreme Court of Georgia · 1896
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