112 Ga. 663 | Ga. | 1901
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 half inch or an inch above the floor of the car; that she was in consequence thrown violently upon the ground and rocks of the street, and was severely and permanently injured; that the injury was not the result of any negligence on the part of plaintiff’s wife, but was due to the negligence of the defendant company or its employees, in leaving the screws in an unsafe condition, and in failing to keep the fenders of its car properly fastened down and confined to the floor. The defendant denied all the allegations of negligence on its part, and further pleaded that plaintiff’s wife, by the exercise of ordinary care, could have avoided the injury which she sustained, that her own negligence caused the injury, and that the injury was an unavoidable accident unmixed with defendant’s negligence. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $1,000. Defendant made a motion for a new trial, to the overruling of which by the court below it now excepts.
There are in the motion for a new trial several other allegations of error in admitting or rejecting evidence, but we see nothing of sufficient importance to require any discussion of these grounds, none of which show any error on the part of the court below.
Judgment affirmed.