Southland Butane Gas Co. v. Blackwell

I do not agree with the majority opinion in this case for several reasons. I think the ruling that, “if one voluntarily becomes drunk, and consequently falls down, or lies down, in a state of insensibility on a public highway, so that he is injured by a passing motor vehicle, he cannot recover for injuries so received, even though there may have been contributory negligence on the part of the operator of the motor vehicle,” is not a correct statement of the law. The basis of the court’s ruling is as stated, “paraphrasing the ruling” made in Southwestern Railroad v. Hankerson, 61 Ga. 114,…