Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad v. Pope

The record bristles with points, but many of them are what Justice Samuel Lumpkin in one of his opinions designated as “pintees.” The only question which seems to be of such novelty and of such general interest as to require elaboration is the one dealt *648with in the fourth headnote. The injury complained of in the present case occurred at a crossing which was just outside of the town of Haralson and within about fifty yards of the corporate limits. The court charged the jury the law embodied in the Civil Code (1910), § 2675, which requires locomotive engineers to blow the whistle upon…