Wolfe v. Georgia Railway & Electric Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Eeid. City court of Atlanta. November 17, 1905. This was an action for damages against a street' railway company. The petition was dismissed on general demurrer, and the plaintiff excepted.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Eeid. City court of Atlanta. November 17, 1905. This was an action for damages against a street' railway company. The petition was dismissed on general demurrer, and the plaintiff excepted. The plaintiffs case, as made by his petition, is substantially as follows: On a day stated, the plaintiff, accompanied by his sister, boarded a car of the defendant at a designated point in the city of Atlanta, for the purpose of being transported to another point reached by the lines of the defendant company. He paid the conductor the required fares for himself and his…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
(After stating the ease.) ■ Plaintiff bases his claim to recover upon an alleged violation of the well-established rule, that' *696it is the duty of a railroad company to protect a passenger from injury, violence, insult, and ill treatment at the hands of the servants of the carrier, who are in charge of or connected in any way with the carriage in which the passenger is being transported. Savannah Ry. Co. v. Quo, 103 Ga. 125; Georgia Ry. & El. Co. v. Balter, 120 Ga. 391, and cit.; Hutch. Car. §595-6; Thorne. Neg. §3186; Booth on Street Railways, §682. The question sought to be made by the…
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