Nason v. West
New York County Courts
Appeal from a judgment of the Municipal Court of Rochester, in favor of plaintiffs, for forty-two dollars and ninety-five cents damages and ten dollars and ninety-five cents costs, for injuries to plaintiffs’ horse and wagon, resulting from a runaway, caused by the horse taking fright at defendant’s horseless carriage.
1Opinion of the CourtSutheblaito, J.
Plaintiffs’ horse and delivery wagon were standing on Tracy Park, Rochester, October 18, 1898, the horse being hitched by a strap attached to a thirty-pound weight. The roadway of Tracy Park is fifteen feet from curb to curb. Defendant entered Tracy Park, • at Alexander street, with his motor carriage, and as he approached, plaintiffs’ horse, who was headed towards Alexander street, became frightened at defendant’s outfit and ran away, damaging the wagon and harness to the amount of seventeen dollars and forty-five cents. The horse received no injury, except such as comes from fright. The…
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