Case Name: Singleton v. Merchants & Miners Transportation Company
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1908-06-18
Citations: 4 Ga. App. 462
Docket Number: 1031
Parties: Singleton v. Merchants & Miners Transportation Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 462–463

Head Matter:
1031.
Singleton v. Merchants & Miners Transportation Company.
Action for damages, from city court of Savannah — Judge Freeman. January 9, 1908.
Argued April 21,
Decided June 18, 1908.
Rehearing denied July 8, 1908.

Opinion:
Powell, J.
The action is by a ship-hand against the owners, for injuries received while loading freight. The evidence tends to indicate either that the injury was occasioned by the negligence of fellow servants— as to this defendant a non-actionable transaction, or through haste in the manner in which the loading was being done under the orders of a foreman, — a thing for which the defendant primarily would be liable. Nevertheless the situation was manifestly patent, and the servant, by voluntarily continuing to work under the circumstances, in legal contemplation evinced a willingness to assume risk of injury. The grant of a nonsuit was, therefore, not erroneous. Judgment affirmed.
Shelby Myrick, for plaintiff.
O'Connor, O'Byrne & Hartridge, for defendant.