Lloyd v. City & Suburban Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Norwood. City court of Savannah. February term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
It ajipears from the record that Dr. Read, a practicing physician in the city of Savannah, was with his servant Lloyd driving on Congress street in a vehicle drawn by two horses. Lloyd was driving. The horses were traveling at an ordinary gait — a slow trot. When they reached the intersection of Congress and Whitaker streets, a wire belonging to the street railway company, and which had sagged from the poles, was swinging across Congress street at about the height of the horses’ necks from the ground. This wire touched the horses’ necks as they were driven under it and caused them to jump and…
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