Scofield v. Myers
Indiana Court of Appeals
Erom Marion Superior Court; J. M. Leathers, Judge. Action by Tillie Myers, administratrix, against. Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle. Erom a, judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRoby, J.
Appellee.’s decedent, a man about sixty years of age, was driving along a “graveled pike?’ bigbway, thirty feet wide, between Greenwood and Indianapolis, in a single top buggy, the back curtain of which was up, when he was overtaken by a runaway team of large horses attached to an oil wagon, which collided with his vehicle, inflicting injuries to him from the effect of which he died. He could have seen the approaching team had he turned and looked, and he could have heard them when and after they were 300 feet distant from him. He did not look back, and up to the time of the collision was…
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