Leigh v. Omaha Street Railway Co.

Maxwell, Ch. J.

This is an action to recover for the death of Elmer Leigh, the husband of the plaintiff. The testimony tends to show that on the 5th of September, 1889, the county fair of Douglas county was in progress at North Omaha; that one of the means of transportation to the fair grounds was by way of the cable cars running north on Twentieth street to Lake street; that from that point to the fair grounds the defendant operated a stub line of road, with street cars drawn by horses, the passengers being transferred to the horse cars from the cable cars; that Elmer Leigh was driver of one…