Lime-Cola Bottling Co. v. Atlanta & West Point Railroad

1. This being a suit against a railway company for injury to the plaintiff’s truck (and other property being transported thereon), which injury occurred in a collision between the truck and the defendant’s train at a public crossing, and one of the specifications of negligence being that the defendant violated the provisions of the blow-post law of August 19, 1918 (tía. L. 1918, p. 212; Park’s Ann. Code Supp. 1922, § 2677 (b)), the court erred in charging the jury as follows: “This act provides that the -engineer shall, when he reaches the blow-post, blow two long and two short blasts of his…