Chattanooga Electric Ry. Co. v. Cooper

The evidence in this case tended to prove that the intestate of the defendant in error, a very old man, in crossing one of the streets of Chattanooga, over which the plaintiff in error operated its cars by electric power, suddenly found himself in a position of apparent peril from a rapidly approaching automobile, and in attempting to escape, in a moment of alarm and excitement, inadvertently ran upon one of the tracks of the plaintiff in error, and was killed by one of its passing cars. This car was moving in a direction opposite to that of the automobile, and the evidence also tended to…