Harrison v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.

The Court of Appeals requested instruction from the Supreme Court upon the following question: “Where a railroad company operates its trains through the limits of a city in this State at a rate of speed in excess of that permitted within the city limits by a valid ordinance of the city, which limits the speed of trains to a speed not exceeding five miles per hour, and where, as a result of the operation of the trains through the city at a rate of speed in excess of that permitted under the ordinance of the city, an owner of land upon which is situated a house in close proximity/ to wit one…