Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Cooper

1. On the trial of an action against a railroad company, in which the plaintiff sought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by the operation of the defendant’s train at a crossing, where the court charged the jury that certain duties prescribed by statute rested upon the driver of an automobile when approaching a railroad-crossing, it was not error for the court, in the absence of a special request, to fail to charge that a violation of any one of these duties by the driver of an automobile constituted negligence per se.

2. A charge of the court that a duty rests upon…