Cleveland v. Newsom

Newsom sued Cleveland to recover for an injury received by plaintiff in being run over by a liorse of defendant, driven by a boy, who, it was alleged, was at the time in defendant’s employ. The evidence tended to show that the plaintiff was walking along in the public highway, when the boy drove up behind him in a sleigh, and called out to another boy, “ Shall I run over him ?” or perhaps, as one *63witness says, “ Will I run over him ?” and before plaintiff could get out of the way, he was struck by one of the thills to the sleigh and injured. Plaintiff testified that he had not heard the…