Foster v. East Jordan Lumber Co.

The plaintiff, a physician, brought this action against the defendant, a lumbering corporation, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff by reason of the negligence of defendant in so managing a locomotive on its logging railroad as to frighten plaintiff’s horse and cause him to run away.

The occurrence took place at defendant’s railroad crossing of Mill street in the village of East Jordan, in February, 1901, when the plaintiff, accompanied by two ladies, was driving a single horse attached to a Portland cutter. The crossing is located near the east…