Wells, Fargo & Co. v. Gunn

The negligence charged in the complaint is that defendant’s employee, who was driving one of its express wagons, carelessly drove his horse into and upon the neck and shoulder of the horse in possession of plaintiff which was attached to a wagon in which she was seated, thereby causing her horse to run away and throw her from the wagon upon a stone pavement with great violence, to her serious and permanent injury, which consisted of a fracture of the eleventh and twelfth dorsal vertebras, a contusion of the spinal cord, and a neuritis of the spinal nerves, thereby producing a partial…