Georgia Power Co. v. Mendelson

1. Where, in order to avoid a street obstruction which extended from the sidewalk to within about two feet of a street-car track, a person traveling in an automobile along the street went upon the track in front of a street-car which he saw approaching and which was in about fifty yards of him, and was injured by being run into by the street-car before he could get off the trade, although in going upon the track he may have been negligent in misjudging the speed at which the street-car was being operated and in believing that he could “beat” the car, his negligence in this respect did not as…