28 Ga. App. 173 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1922
1. It is the duty of a street-railway company to use extraordinary diligence to afford protection to passengers from any injury which might reasonably be anticipated as arising from outside sources. Savannah, Florida & Western Ry. Co. v. Boyle, 115 Ga. 836 (42 S. E. 242, 59 L. R. A. 104); Holly v. Atlanta Street Railroad, 61 Ga. 215 (34 Am. R. 97); Hillman v. Ga. Railroad &c. Co., 126 Ga. 814 (8 Ann. Cas. 222). Where the servants of the company in charge of a car carrying passengers have knowledge that a crowd of persons daily assemble at a
2. Where the injury thus received by the passenger consisted in her being knocked from the platform of the car and being run over by the car, she was necessarily injured by the running of the car, and it was not error, in a suit by her against the street-car company to recover for’ such injury, for the court to charge the jury that the defendant was presumably negligent as alleged in the petition. Such presumption of negligence against the company obtains even though the alleged negligence of the defendant, alleged as proximately causing the injury, was an act in itself disassociated from the actual operation of the car, such as negligently failing to afford to the passenger protection from the danger to be anticipated from the crowd boarding the car.
3. It being alleged by the plaintiff, as an additional ground of negligence contributing to her injury and causing her to be thrown from the car, that while she was upon the platform of the ear the car was negligently caused to give a sudden and violent jerk, there was no error in the charge of the court in submitting this issue to the jury.
4. An observation by the judge, made in the presence of the jury, while counsel for the defendant was cross-examining the plaintiff, in passing upon objections by counsel for the plaintiff, and in replying to the suggestion by counsel for the plaintiff that the object of the question propounded by counsel for the defendant was to cast insinuations upon the plaintiff’s character, stating that he (the judge) could not see anything else in the questions propounded by counsel for the defendant unless they were propounded for the object stated by counsel for the plaintiff, was of slight importance, and not calculated to injuriously affect the defendant’s case in the minds' of the jury, who had heard the colloquy between counsel and the remark of the court, and the statement by the defendant’s counsel disclaiming any intent to reflect upon the plaintiff.
5. A statement by the judge to the effect that he wished he knew how to curb the examination of a witness was harmless.
6. The court did not err, over the objection of counsel for the defendant
7. The petition set out a cause of action, and the evidence authorized the verdict as rendered for the plaintiff. The court did not err in overruling the general demurrer to the petition, or in overruling the defendant’3 motion for a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.