Georgia Railway & Power Co. v. Reid

The plaintiff obtained a verdict against the street-railway company for damages because of its alleged negligence? in a collision of a car of the street-railway with the plaintiff’s automobile at a place where a public highway crossed the street-car track; the defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled, and the movant excepted. The collision occurred in the town of Hapeville, and the negligence alleged was that the street-railway car was running at a reckless and dangerous rate of speed in approaching the crossing, to wit, at a speed of forty miles an hour, and that the motorman of the…