Cook v. Potter

Charge of the Court, by

Brown, J.

Gentlemen of the Jury;

The plaintiff in this action claims that on the evening of the 30th of October, 1869, at the village of Brady, in this county', he had his team — a span of horses — harnessed to a lumber wagon, hitched to a post or rail in the street, the rear end of the wagon extending out into the street, and that while the team were thus standing, the plaintiff rode his horse violently against the wagon, upsetting or partially upsetting the same, and thereby frightening the plaintiff's horses so that they broke away and ran off with the wagon, breaking…