Chalkley v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.

The plaintiff’s husband was killed by being thrown from a wagon, in consequence of the mules which were drawing the same becoming frightened and running away. She sued the defendant railroad company for damages, alleging that the fright of.the mules and the death of her husband, resulting therefrom, were caused by the “ blowing and tooting of a whistle of an engine” of a train of the defendant, and that such “blowing and tooting,” at the time and place described, were “ unnecessary and uncalled for,” and negligence on the part of the defendant. Upon the trial of the case the jury found a…