Wenninger v. Lincoln Traction Co.

While the plaintiff was driving two horses attached to a cart across the intersection of “O” and Eleventh streets in the city of Lincoln, he was struck by a street car belonging to the defendant, and his horses and himself injured. It is charged in his petition that the collision was the result of the negligence of defendant in propelling the car at a 'negligently high rate of speed; that no proper lookout for persons or vehicles approaching the track was kept, and that proper diligence was not observed to stop the car after the motorman became aware of the plaintiff’s perilous situation. The…