Strickland v. Whatley
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Daniel. Pike superior court. August 12, 1913.
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
1. While so much of the act of August 13, 1910 (Acts 1910, p. 92), regulating the use of automobiles on the highways of this State, and prohibiting their operation “at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regal’d to the traffic and use of such highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person or the safety of any property,” as makes a violation of the act penal, is too uncertain and indefinite in its terms to be capable of enforcement (Empire Life Insurance Co. v. Allen, 141 Ga. 413, 81 S. E. 120; Hayes v. State, 11 Ga. App. 371, 75 S. E. 523), the measure…
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