Stewart v. Greene

The plaintiff, who kept a livery stable in the city of Borne, brought suit against the defendant for damages in the sum of two hundred dollars. He alleged, that the defendant had hired a mare, buggy, and harness from him, for the purpose of driving out to L. M. Johnson’s, a distance of three miles, and returning, and that by reason of the defendant’s negligence the mare, which, while still attached to the buggy, had been hitched by the defendant to a picket fence at Johnson’s place, “finally became detached or unhitched,” and started back to her stable and, in her fright, ran against a…