Mitchell v. Railroad

The plaintiff in error was in a wagon, driving a pair of males over a bridge on the Charlotte Pike, near Nashville. This pike was a public thoroughfare, much traveled, and vehicles of all kinds were constantly passing over the bridge. While plaintiff was so passing, an engine of the defendant (Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway) passed under it, and, while under it or just as it was passing out from beneath, its whistle was loudly blown several times. This frightened the mules, which ran away, and plaintiff in error was thrown out of the wagon and badly injured.. Through a next friend…