Jensen v. Town of Oconto Falls

This is an action for damages for injuries received from a fall which the plaintiff suffered when the horse which he was driving ran away with him. The horse shied at a piece of galvanized culvert pipe, twenty inches in diameter and twenty-two feet long, which had been placed beside the road by the chairman of the defendant town of Oconto Falls. Due to the fright thus caused, the horse suddenly wheeled about and ran away, and in so doing caused the plaintiff to be hurled from the carriage, causing the injuries complained of.

The culvert pipe in question had been rolled off a wagon at the side…