Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad v. Bell

Opinion op the Court by

Judge MoCandless

Affirming.

Gr. E. Bell and wife and infant child, were riding in an open-top buggy over the tracks of the C., N. O. & T. P. R. R. Co., at Columbia crossing in the city of Somerset. "While so doing the mule drawing the vehicle became frightened by the movement of a motor velocipede on the railway tracks and ran away, throwing the occupants from the buggy. Bell received serious injuries, for which he recovered in this action the sum of $3,450.00 against the C., N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co. and Dallas Bradshaw, the operator of the velocipede. Both defendants appeal.