Bradshaw v. Minter

Nellie Bradshaw, sometimes hereinafter called the plaintiff, while a social guest of Melvin J. Minter at the latter’s home, was injured when she fell from a saddle horse owned by Minter. She filed a motion for judgment against him to recover damages for her injuries, alleging that he was “guilty of negligence” which proximately caused her injuries in that he knew that the horse was “nervous, unbroken or wild in nature and unfit for normal riding purposes” and yet invited her to ride the animal without warning her of its “dangerous propensities.”

At a trial before a jury, at the instance of the…