ASSOCIATED CAB COMPANY v. Byars

Special ground 1 of the motion for new trial complains that the judge charged the jury: “I charge you that, if you find that the driver of defendant’s taxicab was, himself, driving in violation of some ordinance of the City of Atlanta, that he would be bound to anticipate that others, like himself, might violate a municipal traflic ordinance.”

The defendant does not contend that the charge given was an incorrect statement of the law, but he insists that the court should, without being requested so to charge, have instructed the jury that the rule of law pronounced in the charge complained of…