Wright v. City of Crawfordsville

Action by the appellant, in the court below, to recover damages for the death of his decedent, alleged to be due to the negligence of appellee. It appears from the complaint that the decedent was a cab-man in the city of Crawfordsville, and that on the night of October 21, 1894, while driving his cab along a street in said city, he drove into a ditch which the city had negligently omitted to properly guard by means of guard rails, etc.; that by reason thereof his cab was overturned and he was thrown into the ditch, and one of the horses attached to the cab fell upon him and broke his neck;…