Davis v. Central Vermont Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by-jury at the April Term, 1914, Windham County, Stanton, J., presiding. Yerdiet and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, C. J.
The plaintiff’s hired man unhitched a pair of horses from the wagon and led them into the barn; when he went to open the stable door, one of the horses turned and ran out of the barn, through the yard and, for want of a fence, on to the i’ailroad track. He ran up the track to the defendant’s “Salmon Hole” bridge, went across the river thereon, but fell off at the north end and was killed.
The defendant says that it is not liable in this action brought to recover the value of the horse, because (1), while the duty to fence its road is imposed upon, it by P. S. 4453, liability for a neglect of…
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