Glenn v. Augusta Railway & Electric Co.

This was a suit, against a street-railway company, for damages alleged to have been sustained by the negligent handling of the defendant’s car, by reason of which, according to the petition, the car ran off the track, gave a sudden and violent lurch, and threw the plaintiff against the back of a seat, wounding and bruising him. It was alleged that the motorman in charge of the car “left his place upon the front of the car with no one in charge, . . and came inside the car, negligently leaving the car with no one in charge of the machinery to keep a lookout and be on the alert for any…