Baker v. Stolley

RAWLS, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Evelyn Baker, mother of the minor decedent, appealed from an adverse directed verdict in a wrongful death action.

On January 5, 1961, about 1:30 P. M. on a clear day, John Montgomery, a twenty year old experienced horseman, was riding his quarter horse on the right shoulder of 103rd Street, Jacksonville. Riding with decedent about ten feet to his rear was his friend Donald Mansell who testified that Montgomery’s horse was “prancing”, as saddle horses do, until immediately prior to the accident when the quarter horse turned sideways with his rear protruding…