Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. White

1. It was a question for the jury, under the facts of this case, whether the defendant railway company was negligent in dividing the “Seminole Limited,” a fast express train, into two sections, one heavy and the other light, and in allowing the heavy train, which had to make several local stops, to proceed from Americus, Georgia, north, on a stormy, rainy morning, before daybreak, just ten minutes ahead of the second section of said express, which was the light train and made *291faster time than the first section, having no stops to make until it reached Columbus, Georgia, where plaintiff’s…