Hammond v. Melton

Appellant sued appellee for injuries to her person from an attack by appellee’s stallion. There was a verdict and judgment for appellee. The evidence showed that Mrs. Hammond was driving on the public highway in a covered one horse carriage with her little boy, Harry, her sister, Mrs. Caldwell, and her niece, Mamie Caldwell, when the stall ion, running loose in the highway, with only the headpiece of a halter and a piece of broken rope attached, on him, met and passed them, and turning around, came after them. Mrs. Hammond started the mare she was driving into a run, but finding that she…