22 Ga. App. 676 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1918
1. A street-railroad company has only an equal right with the traveling public to the use of the street in which its track is laid. .In using the highway at a public crossing the law gives to the travelers on the highway the same right to cross the track that it gives to the street-car to cross the highway; and the law imposes on the street-railroad company the duty of ordinary care to avoid injury by its cars to persons attempting to cross the track at gpeh places.
2. In a suit against a street-railroad company, where the petition alleged that the injured persons was fifty-four years- of age, deaf in his left ear, and hard oí hearing in his right ear, and approached a street-railroad crossing after looking to his right and left along the railroad-track, and saw a car standing some distance away, and believing he had ample time to- cross the track before a car could reach the crossing
Judgment reversed.