All the public road laws and penal laws touching the railroads of this state, whether to obligate or protect, apply to the state railroad unless specially excepted or some other provision is prescribed in lieu of some one or more thereof.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 890; Code 1868, § 969; Code 1873, § 965; Code 1882, § 965; Civil Code 1895, § 1022; Civil Code 1910, § 1289; Code 1933, § 91-203.)
Cross references.- Regulation of railroads generally, T. 46, Cs. 8 and 9.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Railroad's public liability.
- Western & Atlantic Railroad is not absolved from liability to public which arises from the exercise of the railroad's franchise to operate a railroad and to run trains along its tracks by leasing, with legislative authority and approval, the use of the railroads tracks to another railroad company, when there is no legislative exemption of the Western & Atlantic Railroad from any liability to the public arising from the use of the railroad's tracks by the lessee railroad. Bennett v. Western & A.R.R., 42 Ga. App. 821, 157 S.E. 365 (1931).
Cited in Western & A.R.R. v. Gray, 172 Ga. 286, 157 S.E. 482 (1931).