Georgia Railway & Power Co. v. Ryan

This was an action by a passenger on a street-railway against two alleged joint tort-feasors. Petitioner shows that one of the defendants, the street-railway company, had, in order to permit her to alight, brought its car to a stop, not at the near side of the street intersection as required by the city ordinance, but had negligently carried its car a considerable stated distance over and beyond such designated place for stopping, and, in thus continuing the progress of the car beyond the point legally designated for stopping it, had negligently approached within a dangerously close distance…