Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Hodges

1. Where, in an action against a railroad company to recover damages for the killing of the plaintiff’s mule, it appeared from the evidence that the defendant’s train, after passing through the Town of Brinson, struck the mule at least 300 feet beyond the corporate limits of said town and was then proceeding at a speed of 50 to 55 miles per hour, it was error to admit in evidence an ordinance of the Town of Brinson limiting the speed of trains within said town to 20 miles per hour, over the objection that the ordinance had no application to the operation of trains outside the Town of Brinson…