Davison v. Wilkes-Barre & Wyoming Valley Traction Co.

Citations

• 10 Pa. Super. 442
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 299

Syllabus

<p>Street railways — Fright of horse — Negligence.</p> <p>The right of a street railway company to run its cars at a proper rate of speed, with the incident noise and air current, is not less than the right of a citizen to drive his horses; and the company is not responsible for the fright of the horse at the ordinary movements of the car.</p> <p>Proximate and remote cause — Street railways — Fright of horse.</p> <p>Where the fright of a horse was the proximate cause of an accident, the speed of the car, the breeze thereby created, and the blowing of the plaintiff’s hat against the animal are remote causes, neither necessarily nor directly tending to bring about the accident, and a railroad company cannot be required to anticipate and guard against such a succession of occurrences.</p>