Adams v. Jackson

1. Where the automobile in which plaintiff’s son was riding along a public highway was being driven at an excessive rate of speed down hill on a winding road and around a curve on a dark night, and collided with a truck parked on the side of the road, with about four feet of the truck projecting into the highway and with no rear light buxming, which was visible for one hundred feet to any one approaching from the rear-, killing the plaintiff’s son, the act of the driver of the automobile in so driving was not necessarily the proximate cause of the death. Nixon v. Williams, 25 Ga. App. 594…