Hill v. Rome Street Railroad

The plaintiff in her petition alleged, that while being driven in a cart along a public highway running parallel with the defendant company’s railway-track, an “ elec*67tric car came dashing along suddenly at a high rate of speed, at some 15 or 20 miles an hour, making a great and unusual noise, which, together with such unusual speed, so frightened the horse attached to the vehicle ” in which she was riding “ as to cause the horse to run away,” and that in consequence she was thrown upon the track in front of the moving car and seriously injured. On the trial she testified, that the horse was…