Bird v. Savannah Electric Co.

The petition alleged, that the defendant company’s street-car, upon which the plaintiff was a passenger, stopped at the intersection of Liberty and Habersham streets (at about the property line thereof), with the result that the rear end of the car, from which she was compelled to alight, was standing immediately over a sandy portion of Habersham street, making the step to the ground long and difficult, but, inasmuch as the defendant had stopped the car at that point for her to alight, she was obliged to use the only place and the only means afforded her to alight; that the point where the…