Note 111 — Chapter II · NEGLIGENT INTERFERENCE (continued 3)
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Sect. 2222. “There must be fixed on the line of said roads, and at the distance of four hundred yards from the centre of each of such road crossings, and on each side thereof, a post, and the engineer shall be required, whenever he shall arrive at either of said posts, to blow the whistle of the locomotive until it arrives at the public road, and to simultaneously check and keep checking the speed thereof, so as to stop in time should any person or thing be crossing said track on said road.”
Sect. 2224. “If any engineer neglects to blow said whistle as required, and to check the speed as required, he is guilty of a misdemeanor....”—Georgia Code of 1895.