Bowling Green Railway Co. v. Lewis' Administrator

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

Affirming.

On the night of October 31, 1910, Hallowe’en, a number of boys were abroad on the streets of the city of *576Bowling Green, engaged in the perpetration of those pranks which unfortunately-have come to characterize the modlem celebration of this anniversary. One of the forms of mischief indulged in by them on that occasion was the lubrication with soap of the tracks of the street railway company.

One of appellant’s street cars, being operated on State street, encountered one of these lubricated places, and was unable to proceed until the motorman…