Southern Railway Co. v. Williams
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Baxley—Judge Sellers. July 23, 1916. The plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s’ train from Brunswick to Baxley. There was a large crowd to get off the train at Baxley. He was riding at the rear end of the coach. When the train stopped at Baxley the passengers for that station weré in front of him, except his companion, Herndon. It was necessary for them to alight from the front end of the car.
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Action for damages; from city court of Baxley—Judge Sellers. July 23, 1916. The plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s’ train from Brunswick to Baxley. There was a large crowd to get off the train at Baxley. He was riding at the rear end of the coach. When the train stopped at Baxley the passengers for that station weré in front of him, except his companion, Herndon. It was necessary for them to alight from the front end of the car. When about a third of the distance from the rear end of the coach an employee of the railway company, whom the plaintiff took to be a flagman, stopped him…
1Opinion of the CourtGeorge, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Belatively to the question for decision here, the true doctrine is enunciated in Thompson on Negligence, vol. 3, p. 344, as follows: “It may . . be affirmed, on the one hand, that when a train stops at a station to which the company contracts to carry a passenger, .the company is liable if reasonable time to leave is not afforded, and the passenger is injured in an attempt to leave after it has started and while in motion, if he does not, in getting off, incur a danger obvious to the mind of a reasonable man; and on the other hand that, although the…
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- Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. McKinneySupreme Court of Georgia · 1903
- Simmons v. Seaboard Air-Line RailwaySupreme Court of Georgia · 1904
- Suber v. Georgia, Carolina & Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1895
- Hill v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
- Augusta Southern Railroad v. SniderSupreme Court of Georgia · 1903
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- Giargiari v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1988