Dier v. Voorhees

On March 2, 1915, one Frank H. Green was driving a covered laundry wagon, drawn by one horse, in an easterly direction along Main street west, in the city of Lansing, and when about 200 feet west of the corner of Main street and Washington avenue, his wagon was struck by an automobile, driven by the defendant, J. Martin Voorhees, who had come up behind the laundry wagon and was attempting to pass it, going in the same direction on Main street. The collision dished a wheel of the wagon, broke the thills, otherwise damaged it, and moreover frightened the *511horse, which, ran away and, at the…