Maner v. Dykes

Hutcheson, Justice.

On the trial of this case the defendant offered in evidence rule 62e of the Public-Service Commission of Georgia, a violation of which rule was alleged by the defendant in his cross-action as the proximate cause of his injury and as negligence per se. The plaintiff objected to the introduction of this rule in evidence, "upon the grounds that said rule was wholly immaterial and irrelevant, was beyond the authority of the Public-Service Commission to enact, and was an unlawful delegation of authority upon the part of the legislature of the State of Georgia to the…