Purvis v. Atlanta Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action, for damages. Before Judge Pendleton. Fulton superior court. July 19, 1910. The plaintiff in error brought suit against the Atlanta Northern Bailway Company, and alleged, that on the night of May 16, 1906, between 11 and 12 o’clock, he boarded one of the defendant’s cars in Atlanta; that when he got on he paid the conductor a five-cent fare and told him he wanted to get-off at Ponder’s avenue; that the conductor “accepted his fare and information as to the…
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Action, for damages. Before Judge Pendleton. Fulton superior court. July 19, 1910. The plaintiff in error brought suit against the Atlanta Northern Bailway Company, and alleged, that on the night of May 16, 1906, between 11 and 12 o’clock, he boarded one of the defendant’s cars in Atlanta; that when he got on he paid the conductor a five-cent fare and told him he wanted to get-off at Ponder’s avenue; that the conductor “accepted his fare and information as to the stopping-place desired, without demur, and the car moved on;” that the conductor failed to stop the car at Ponder’s avenue, or to…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
1. The plaintiff’s suit being for the recovery of damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained in consequence of being ejected from a car of the defendant company at a point other than his destination and at a place which, according to the allegations of the petition, was unsafe and dangerous, and there being evidence tending to support such allegations, the court erred in giving to the jury a charge which excluded from their consideration the alleged negligence of the defendant in carrying plaintiff beyond the street which he alleged was his intended destination.
2. The court charged…
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