Nocks v. Incorporated Town of Whiting

Bishop, J.—

The facts shown by the record, and taken most favorably to plaintiff, as we are authorized to do, make it appear that on the day in question a young horse owned by plaintiff, and kept usually in his stable abutting upon a public alley in the defendant town, managed to slip its halter and escape from the balm into the alley, and from thence into the street; that it ran up the- street, being one of the main public streets jn the town, and in doing so it stepped into a hole in the surface thereof, resulting in the accident *406and -injury complained of. Tbe street was eighty feet in…