Shawhan v. Clarke

Plaintiff' claims one thousand dollars as the value of a horse which died of injuries inflicted by a buggy and horse belonging to the defendant, and through his negligence. The defendant, besides the general issue, averred that at the time his team was properly secured and attended to, and that a runaway horse and buggy came into collision with his, breaking his buggy and causing his horse to break loose and run.

The evidence shows that each party had placed his horse and buggy not more than twelve or fifteen feet apart in the place allotted for such purposes in. the Fair Grounds, and each in…