Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co v. Gunter

Opinion oe the court by

JUDGE DURELiLE

Reversing.

Appellee, who is a woman sixty-seven years old, obtained a verdict of $1,000 damages for injuries sustained by her by jumping or being .thrown from her buggy by reason of her horse becoming frightened at appellant’s passenger train at Walcutt’s crossing; it being averred that no signal or warning of the approach of the train was given, and that the crossing at which the accident occurred was- exceptionally dangerous, by reason of the railroad making a sharp curve there, and passing through a cut just before reaching the pike. The evidence as to…