Cundiff v. City of Owensboro

*169Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

A farmer on a wagon loaded with tobacco was driving bis team ef skittish mules along a street in the city of Owensboro, when the mules, becoming frightened at a spotted pony, dashed from the roadbed on to the grass plot, striking a defective electric light pole, maintained by the city, with such force that it broke off near the ground and also near the top and fell on to the wagon, breaking the vehicle and causing the team to run away, inflicting an injury to the person of the farmer, to recover damages for which he brought this action.

Cundiff was…