Carter v. Central of Georgia Railroad

Underwood, Judge.

Plaintiff, dissatisfied with the amount of her verdict for personal injuries sustained in an automobile collision, contends that the evidence was insufficient to warrant the court’s charge on the doctrines of comparative negligence, equal negligence, and avoidance.

The usual criteria are well known. "It is a well established rule that an instruction is not abstract or inapplicable where there is any evidence, however slight, on which to predicate it. Camp v. Phillips, 42 Ga. 289. 'To justify a charge on a given subject, it is not necessary there should be direct evidence going…