Hardin v. Southern Railway Co.

1. It is incumbent upon a railroad company to exercise due care in the maintenance of a bridge over its tracks along a public highway in a condition safe for travelers passing over the bridge in the exercise of due care.

2. What constitutes such due care upon the part of the railroad company *428will be determined, with reference to any particular condition in the roadway at the approach to the bridge, as a sharp curve in the road at the approach to the bridge, which increases the hazard in the use of the bridge by travelers in vehicles as they turn the sharp curve from the road onto the bridge.

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