Pacetti v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages, from city court of Savannah — Judge Freeman. December 28, 1908. This case came to this court upon the sustaining ftf demurrers, general and special, to the plaintiffs petition.
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Action for damages, from city court of Savannah — Judge Freeman. December 28, 1908. This case came to this court upon the sustaining ftf demurrers, general and special, to the plaintiffs petition. The substance of the plaintiffs petition is, that she went to the passenger station of the defendant in Savannah, in company with other relatives, to bid her brother adieu; that she and her immediate party were standing in the lobby of the station, near one of-the gates which led from the general waiting-room to the train shed. A set of gates, constructed of transverse collapsible iron bars, shut…
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Under the allegations of the petition, the plaintiff was on the-premises of the defendant as an invited guest, and the defendant owed her the duty of exercising toward her ordinary care and diligence to secure her safety. Mandeville Mills v. Dale, 2 Ga. App. 607 (58 S. E. 1060); Civil Code, §3824; Rollestone v. Cassirer, 3 Ga. App. 161 (59 S. E. 442). The brief of the counsel for the defendant in error, and the opinion of the trial judge contained in the record, present the proposition that the petition is defective, in that the gateman’s knowledge of the…
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