St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Morrison

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

A horse which M. H. Morrison was driving became frightened at a passing train of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company and ran away. Mr. Morrison was thrown out of his buggy and seriously injured. He sued the railroad company, and recovered a judgment for $1925, from which the defendant prosecutes error. The only question necessary to be considered is whether there was any evidence tending to show that the injury was the result of the *266breach of any duty which the company owed to the plaintiff.

In the vicinity of the place where the…