Lambeck v. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad

If a horse becomes frightened and beyond control, and runs away, and by reason thereof collides with an object in the highway, such fright is the proximate cause of an injury to the driver, and the only proximate cause, in one case as much as another, whether it causes the horse to fall down an embankment, back off a bridge, attempt to jump over a train of cars entirely obstructing the highway, or run into and among a lot of *513railway iron in the highway. And, so far as the question of proximate cause is concerned, it is as true in a case where a horse becomes frightened without fault of the…