Court Opinion

ID: 9607226
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 02:56:30.52251+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:49:28.521050
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Felton, Chief Judge,
dissenting. A casual reading of the petition will show that there are enough general allegations of negligence to render the petition immune to attack by general demurrer. “The rule is firmly fixed in the adjudications of this court that while as against a general demurrer a mere general averment of negligence will suffice, a plaintiff must, when called on by special demurrer to do so, specify wherein the negligence consisted and the particulars thereof.” Hudgins v. Coca Cola Bottling Co., 122 Ga. 695, 698 (50 SE 974). The holdings that a general allegation of negligence is good as against a general demurrer are too numerous to mention. The petition in this case, in my opinion, is not subject to general demurrer. The special demurrers calling for particulars were not passed upon. See Macon Telegraph Publishing Co. v. Graden, 79 Ga. App. 230 (53 SE2d 371). Tatum v. Clemones, 105 Ga. App. 221 (124 SE2d 425) is distinguishable on its facts.
The above rule applies to an allegation of proximate cause. There are no allegations in the petition which contradict the general allegations of negligence or probable cause. I do not think that the plaintiff, as a matter of law, assumed the risk of the peculiar injury shown by the petition to be involved in this case.