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SAVANNAH TRANSIT COMPANY v. ODUM

39378.

105 Ga. App. 740 (1962)

125 S.E.2d 538

SAVANNAH TRANSIT COMPANY v. ODUM.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 11, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bouhan, Lawrence, Williams, Levy & McAlpin, Kirk McAlpin, Frank W. Seiler, Walter C. Hartridge, II, for plaintiff in error.

Pierce, Ranitz & Lee, John F. M. Rantiz, Jr., F. Robert Raley, contra.

HALL, Judge.

A common carrier has a duty to use extraordinary diligence to protect its passengers from known or reasonably observable danger from outside sources. This duty of extraordinary care is owed towards passengers of a bus from the time they board the bus, and not just when the bus is in motion. Metropolitan Transit System, Inc. v. Burton, 103 Ga.App. 688, 690 (120 S.E.2d 663...

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