| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1878 - 708 pages
...error. WRIGHT & FEATHEHSTON, for defendant. The Mayor and Council of the City of Borne w. Dodd. WARNEK, Chief Justice. This was an action brought by the plaintiff...plaintiff did use ordinary care, and if while in the use thereof, by reason of the defendant's negligence, he sustained injury, the defendant will not be... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1879 - 756 pages
...road crossed the same. In this class of physical injuries the 2972nd section of the Code declares, that if the plaintiff by ordinary care, could have...consequences to himself caused by the defendant's negligence, he is not entitled to recover. But in other cases, the defendant is not relieved although the plaintiff... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1885 - 952 pages
...public road crossed the same. In this class of physical injuries, the 2972d section of the Code declares that if the plaintiff, by ordinary care, could have...consequences to himself caused by the defendant's negligence, he is not entitled to recover. But in other cases the defendant is not relieved, although the plaintiff... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1883 - 926 pages
...omitted from the grounds of this opinion any reference to section 2972 of the Code, which declares that "if the plaintiff, by ordinary care, could have...consequences to himself caused by the defendant's negligence, he is not entitled to recover." It is complained by plaintiff in error the court in this suit for personal... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1889 - 936 pages
...to present to the jury the law contained in sections 2972 and 3034 of the code of 1882, as follows: "If the plaintiff, by ordinary care, could have avoided...to himself, caused by the defendant's negligence, he is not entitled to recover. No person shall recover damage from a railroad company for injury to... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1886 - 990 pages
...from a railroad company for- injury to himself, where the same is caused by his own negligence." " If the plaintiff, by ordinary care, could have avoided...to himself, caused by the defendant's negligence, he is not entitled to recover." Code, §§3034, 2972 ; The Georgia Railroad and Hanking Co. vs. Neely,... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1888 - 946 pages
...set forth in section 2972 of the Code, to-wit: If the plaintiff (in this case plaintiff's husband) by ordinary care could have avoided the consequences...to himself, caused by the defendant's negligence, she is not entitled to recover. The point was decided at this term in the case of Harris vs. The Central... | |
| Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1883 - 796 pages
...in proportion to the amount of default attributable to him." Still another section, 2972, declares that "if the plaintiff, by ordinary care, could have...consequences to himself caused by the defendant's negligence, he is not entitled to recover ; but in other cases the defendant is not relieved, although the plaintiff... | |
| 1905 - 1028 pages
...state that, In a case like the present, contributory negligence does not necessarily debar a recovery. "If the plaintiff by ordinary care could have avoided...consequences to himself caused by the defendant's negligence, he Is not entitled to recover. But In other cases the defendant is not relieved, although the plaintiff... | |
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