Burns v. Getty

BUDGE, G. J.

Sam Van, vegetable peddler, was driving a one-horse wagon in a southerly direction on North Main Street in Pocatello, when one of appellant’s employees in a Ford truck, attempting to pass the wagon, struck it. Mr. Van was thrown from the wagon, and the driverless horse, still pulling the wagon, ran south on Main Street. Plaintiff saw the horse and wagon at Center Street, which intersects Main, and made a futile attempt to stop the horse; pursued the horse, and thereafter jumped on the running-board of a truck (not the one which collided with Van’s wagon), which later came up even…