Ex parte South & North Ala. Railroad

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• “Negligence . . . consists in a want of that reasonable care which would be exercised by a person of ordinary prudence under all the existing circumstances, in view of the probable danger of injury”
• “[W]hat constitutes negligence in a particular case is generally a question for the jury, and not for the court[.]” (quoting N. Pa. R.R. Co. v. Heilman, 49 Pa. 60, 63 (1865))

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