Plaspohl v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

1. “A palpable slip of the tongue on the part, of the judge in instructing the jury as to an abstract proposition of law is not sufficient cause for reversing the judgment, where upon consideration of it in connection with the context and all the rest of the charge, it is plain that the jury could not have been misled.” Brooks v. Carver, 55 Ga. App. 362, 363 (190 S. E. 389). Applying this rule to the first special assignment of error, it is obvious that the judge’s inadvertence in using the word “employee” where he meant “employer” was a palpable mistake which could not have caused the jury…