Holly v. Atlanta Street Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Negligence. Damages. Before Judge Hillyer. Fulton Superior Court. April Term, 1878. Mary A. Holly brought case against the street railroad.
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Railroads. Negligence. Damages. Before Judge Hillyer. Fulton Superior Court. April Term, 1878. Mary A. Holly brought case against the street railroad. The body of her declaration was as follows: “ That heretofor, to-wit: on or about the 20th day of January, 1877, whilst your petitioner was a passenger in one of the cars of said company, on Peachtree street, in said city, said car having a driver, but not haying a conductor, a personal altercation or fight commenced between two of the male passengers who were also on-said car; and that, by reason of the negligence of S’aid corporation in not…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
This was a demurrer to the plaintiff’s declaration, which alleged to the effect that the plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s cars; that two men got to fighting thereon; that she attempted to get off the cars, and in doing so was caught in the door of the car by the persons fighting,and was hadly hurt by being severely mashed and bruised; that the defendant was negligent in failing to provide any conductor to preserve order on the car, and that the driver was negligent in failing to suppress the fight or to eject the combatants, or otherwise to come to her…
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