Case ID: ga-app_84/html/0739-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Felton, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

33737.
    ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. et al. v. PHILLIPS.
    Decided October 18, 1951.
    
      S. Spencer Bennet, Thomas K. Vann Jr., Alexander Vann & Lilly, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      Titus & Altman, contra.
   Felton, J.

This is a companion case to Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Dolan, ante. In that case it was held that the sole proximate cause of the death of the driver of the truck was his own negligence in not avoiding the consequences of the alleged negligence of the railroad by the exercise of ordinary care. It follows that the widow of a guest of the driver of the truck in that case cannot recover for the reason that the sole proximate cause of the death of her husband was the negligence of the driver of the truck.

The court erred in overruling the general demurrer to count 2 of the petition.

Judgment reversed.

Sutton, C.J., and Worrill, J., concur.