Court Opinion

ID: 9854727
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:12:47.48417+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:19.121930
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Hawkins, Justice,
concurring specially. I concur in the judgment of reversal for the reasons stated in the 2nd division of the opinion, but I dissent from the ruling in the 1st headnote and in the corresponding division of the opinion, for the reason that one who has a clear chance of -avoiding the consequences of another’s negligence by leaving an automobile in which he is riding as a gratuitous passenger, but voluntarily remains in the automobile knowing that it is being operated by one who is under the influence of intoxicating liquors, assumes the risk of any injury resulting from the negligent operation thereof by such driver, and is guilty of such negligent failure to avoid a known danger as will wholly defeat his right to recover. Code §§ 105-603, 105-1803; Simmons v. Seaboard Air Line By., 120 Ga. 225 (47 S. E. 570); Southland Butane Gas Co. v. Blackwell, 211 Ga. 665 (88 S. E. 2d 6), and cases there cited; 38 Am. Jur. 845, § 171.