Cole v. North Danville Cooperative Creamery Ass'n

The plaintiff had driven a horse, attached to a Concord wagon, to the creamery operated by the defendant, for the purpose of delivering two cans of cream. While she was sitting in the wagon, at the unloading platform, waiting to have her cans returned to her filled with buttermilk, the safety valve of a boiler, used by the defendant to generate steam with which to cleanse the cans, suddenly blew off. The noise caused the plaintiff’s horse to become frightened and unmanageable, with the result that the wagon was overturned and the plaintiff thrown out and injured. She sued in an action of…