Hayne v. Union Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s street car, and was riding near the front window, on a seat in the corner of the car. The car entered upon a turnout to pass two other cars, going in the opposite direction, which were waiting there for the plaintiff’s car to go by. The conductor of one of these cars, who had picked up a dead hen on the beach near the road, threw the hen in sport at the motorman on the car on which the plaintiff was riding. When he threw the hen he was standing on the ground near his car. He missed the motorman, and his missile struck the window, broke the…