Cosper v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

1. Special ground one of the amended motion for a new trial complains that the court erred in charging the following: “I charge you, gentlemen, that even though you may find from the evidence that the defendant railroad company violated an ordinance of the City of LaGrange by going over the railroad crossing at a rate of speed over eight miles an hour, that such violation, while it constituted negligence as a matter of law, that such violation would not authorize a recovery on the behalf of the plaintiff, unless such violation was the proximate cause of the accident. Before you would be…