Riley v. New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad

This action was brought in Wicomico County by the plaintiff against the defendant company to recover for personal injuries received by himself, and for damages to his horse and carriage occasioned, as alleged, by the negligence of the defendant in causing his horse to take fright and run away while he was in the act of driving across the defendant’s track near its station in the city of Salisbury.

The wrongful act or negligence charged, as the ground of the action, is stated in the narr. as follows : “ While the defendant’s engine was standing still and within about fifteen feet of plaintiff’s…