Cox v. Crow

Hall, Judge.

1. Ground 7 complains of the court’s instructions that if the jury should find that the decedent violated any of the statutes read to them, such violation would be negligence per se and, if the proximate cause of the decedent’s injuries, would bar recovery by the plaintiff. The statutes read to the jury prohibit driving at a speed unreasonable under all the circumstances (Code Ann. § 68-1626); prohibit driving of trucks and load weighing less than 10,000 pounds over 55 miles per hour, driving of trucks and load weighing 10,000 to 16,000 pounds over 50 miles per hour, and driving…