Cavanaugh v. Biggin

1. Where three separate and distinct acts of negligence are relied upon for a recovery, it is not necessary to a recovery that proof should be made of each and all, if the defendant’s liability to respond in damages would be shown by establishing the commission of one or more of them; and in such a case it was not error for the trial judge to instruct the jury that if the plaintiff proved the negligence of the defendant in one or more of the ways stated in his petition, and such act was the proximate cause of the injury, the plaintiff could recover. Savannah Ry. Co. v. Evans, 121 Ga. 392 (5),…