State Highway Department v. Stephens

1. Where a person traveling along a highway in an automobile receives injuries from a collision between his automobile and one parked on a bridge in the highway, he fails to exercise ordinary care to avoid the injuries and is guilty of negligence which proximately causes the injuries, if he could have seen the parked automobile in time to bring his own automobile under control and avoid the collision. Fraser v. Hunter, 42 Ga. App. 329 (156 S. E. 268) ; City of Macon v. Newberry, 35 Ga. App. 252 (132 S. E. 917).

2. In the petition in a suit to recover for damage alleged to have been sustained…