Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Halladay

The action is to recover damages for personal injuries the result of plaintiff’s being thrown from his buggy, upon his mules becoming frightened at the noise and escaping steam from one of defendant’s steam locomotives. Plaintiff was driving his team along a public highway in or near the town of Moundville, and while crossing defendant’s track the animals took fright and ran away, with the consequences stated. The negligence or wrongful act alleged, and upon which liability is predicated, is set up in the five counts upon which the trial was had in varying terms, but in all, substantially as…