Atlanta & West Point Railroad v. Hemmings

I think there is a marked difference between the statutory enactment known as.the blow-post law (Code of 1910, §§ 2675-26l<'7), which was held by the Supreme Court of the United States, in Seaboard Air-Line Ry. v. Blackwell, 244 U. S. 310 (supra), to be “a direct and unconstitutional inter ferenee with interstate commerce,” and the “rule” laid down by the unanimous decisions of the Supreme Court of Georgia “that whether or not it is negligence on the part of the engineer of a railroad company to fail to reduce the speed of trains so as to be able to prevent injury to persons who might be on a…