Brown v. Green
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the case (No. 87, November Term, 1897), to recover damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff in. assisting in harnessing the horse of the defendants, which horse was alleged to be vicious. The evidence of the plaintiff was that the defendants, who were engaged in the grocery business in the City of Wilmington, owned a certain gray mare which was driven, by a colored boy named Henry, to the defendants’ produce wagon.
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Action on the case (No. 87, November Term, 1897), to recover damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff in. assisting in harnessing the horse of the defendants, which horse was alleged to be vicious. The evidence of the plaintiff was that the defendants, who were engaged in the grocery business in the City of Wilmington, owned a certain gray mare which was driven, by a colored boy named Henry, to the defendants’ produce wagon. That the horse was kept at the Pioneer Club Stable on Orange street between Eighth and Ninth. That said stable was under the management of one Herdman, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Boyce, J.,
charging the jury :
Gentlemen of the jury George C. Brown, the plaintiff, has brought his action to recover for personal injuries, the character of which you have heard, which he claims to have sustained while aiding and assisting in bridling and harnessing a horse at a club stable, in this city, on the thirty-first day of August, 1897, belonging to the defendants. He further claims that the horse was vicious in her habits, whenever an attempt was made at harnessing her, and that it was due to this vicious propensity of the animal that he received the injuries complained of.
A horse…
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