Collins v. Augusta-Aiken Railway & Electric Corp.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Richmond county — Judge W. F. Eve. March 4, 1913. cited: Hopkins on Personal Injuries, §§ 137, 41, 85, 92, 100; L. & N. R. Co. v. Plunkett, 6 Ga. App. 684; Dobbs v. Rome Ry. Co., 8 Ga. App. 350; Electric Ry. Co. v. O’Connor, 99 Ga. 64; Coleman v. Wrightsville & Tennille R. Co., 114 Ga. 386; Central Ry. Co. v. North, 129 Ga. 110; People v. Squire, 107 N. Y. 593 (1 Am. St. R. 893); Birmingham Ry. Co. v. Hays, 44 So. 1032; Birmingham Ry.
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Action for damages; from city court of Richmond county — Judge W. F. Eve. March 4, 1913. cited: Hopkins on Personal Injuries, §§ 137, 41, 85, 92, 100; L. & N. R. Co. v. Plunkett, 6 Ga. App. 684; Dobbs v. Rome Ry. Co., 8 Ga. App. 350; Electric Ry. Co. v. O’Connor, 99 Ga. 64; Coleman v. Wrightsville & Tennille R. Co., 114 Ga. 386; Central Ry. Co. v. North, 129 Ga. 110; People v. Squire, 107 N. Y. 593 (1 Am. St. R. 893); Birmingham Ry. Co. v. Hays, 44 So. 1032; Birmingham Ry. Co. v. Jones, 45 So. 177; Scott v. San Bernardino Traction Co., 93 Pac. 677; Pickett v. Wilmington & W. R. Co., 117 N. C.…
1Opinion of the CourtPottle, J.
The plaintiff sought to recover of the street railway company damages for alleged personal injuries. The allegations of the petition made substantially the following case: Broad street is one of the main public thoroughfares in the City of Augusta, running approximately east and west. About three o’clock in the afternoon the plaintiff started to cross Broad street from the south side thereof to watch out for one of the defendant’s street-cars going westward up Broad street. When about two feet from the track and looking eastward along Broad street to discover the approach of the car for which…
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