Blakeslee v. Consolidated Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff, while driving a team attached to a load of barrels on a narrow street, turned his team upon the track of the defendant’s trolley road, to pass a carriage standing by the roadside. As the front wheel of the wagon was brought upon or near to the westerly fail of the track, the load was struck upon the side, near the front, by defendant’s car, whereupon the plaintiff’s team ran away, and he was Injured. He recovered a verdict in an action for negligence, and the defendant has appealed. The principal questions raised arise over the claims of defendant’s counsel that (1),…