Court Opinion

ID: 9865613
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 19:08:03.611098+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:40:40.263686
License: Public Domain

ON REHEARING.
In considering the case on rehearing, we desire to make refer*367ence to paragraph (h) of the original opinion. Counsel for Bradshaw states that the language of the court, “it would seem that the failure of the plaintiff to exercise ordinary care for his own safety is the sole proximate cause of his injury,” in effect decides as a matter of law that the railroad was negligent in some one or more particulars charged in the petition; and that the court’in such language applies the rule of negligence applicable under our State laws, and not the law applicable under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. We do not think that the language used is susceptible of such a construction. Certainly not when we read the whole division (h) of the original opinion in the light of the other portions of such division (h) and other divisions of the opinion. In the first paragraph of division (h) of the original opinion the court said: “When the evidence in the instant case is applied to the principles of law as laid down in the case when it was here before, particularly the principles of law set forth and the citations of authority supporting them in division 2 of the opinion, the evidence does not sustain the verdict.” If there be any confusion in the statement as to the court’s position, we now further clarify it by saying that the evidence in the instant case did not support the verdict for the plaintiff. This is the unanimous opinion of the court in view of the law of the case as decided in Southern Railway Company v. Bradshaw, 73 Ga. App. 438 (supra). We do not deem it essential or of any further benefit to go into the other questions raised in the motion for rehearing.
The judgment of reversal is adhered to on rehearing. • All the questions raised on rehearing and otherwise have received the court’s most careful consideration.

Judgment adhered to on rehearing.

MacIntyre, P. J., and Townsend, J., concur.