Collins Park & Belt Railroad v. Ware

This was a suit by A. J. Ware against the Collins Park and Belt Railroad Company, instituted in the city court of Atlanta, for damages resulting from injuries sustained by the plaintiff’s wife in consequence of the alleged negligence of the defendant company. The petition alleged, in substance, that plaintiff’s wife, while a passenger on one of defendant’s cars, attempted to alight therefrom, and caught the heel of her shoe on a screw intended to fasten to the floor of the car the fender over the wheel, the screw in question having been negligently allowed to work up until it protruded for a…