Noble v. St. Joseph & Benton Harbor Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff recovered a judgment for personal injuries received while a passenger on defendant’s horse car. The duty of the company, a failure to observe which is claimed to have resulted in the injury, is alleged as follows:

“ It thereupon became and was the duty of said defendant to safely carry, the said plaintiff from said St. Joseph to said Benton Harbor, and to supply for said car upon which said plaintiff took passage as aforesaid safe and gentle horses, and such horses as would not become frightened or fractious at or because of any heap of material, clay, or rubbish that might be…