Hackney v. Delaware & Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Co.

*336The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fort, J.

This was a suit by an administratrix, under the Death act, to recover for the widow and next of kin the pecuniary loss sustained by them by the death of the intestate.

The injury resulted from a horse becoming frightened while attached to a carriage in which the plaintiff’s intestate was riding along a public highway. The cause of the fright was alleged to be the negligent use of a wagón containing coils of wire, which were being unwound and strung by the defendant upon poles upon .or adjacent to the highway. There was a verdict for the…