Case ID: ga_113/html/1007-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Porter v. Ocean Steamship Company.
    Argued June 12,
    Decided July 20, 1901.
    Action for damages. Before Judge Falligant. Chatham superior court. August 10, 1900.
    
      Lester & Bavenel and B. L. Golding, for plaintiff,
    
      Lawton & Cunningham, for defendant.
   Simmons, C. J.

Where an.employee sued his master for injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of the master’s negligence, and the evidence showed that, if the master was negligent at all, the plaintiff knew of such negligence and took the resulting risk, it was not error to grant a nonsuit.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.