Giles v. Poppell

This was a suit for damages by C. J. Poppell against Pete Giles. It was alleged in the petition that, on November 20, 1937, the plaintiff was driving his Ford automobile in a southerly direction on State route No. 21, near Goshen church in Effingham County, Georgia, where he met the defendant driving a Dodge truck at a reckless- rate of speed in the opposite direction; that on approaching each other on a curve the plaintiff dimmed the lights on his ear and got well over on his right side of the road, but that the defendant drove his automobile truck across the center line of the road and…