Vicksburg Railway & Light Co. v. Miles

Citations

• 88 Miss. 204
• 40 So. 738

Syllabus

<p>Evidence. Electricity. Injury to animals. Street railway.</p> <p>■ Evidence of a continuous series of instances like the one sued for, •knowledge thereof having been brought to the defendant, is admissible in an action against an electric railway company for injury to a horse alleged to have been caused by an electric shock, causing the animal to fall while crossing defendant’s track, since it tends to show that the injury was caused by electricity, occasioned by continuous negligence, and not by an unavoidable accident.</p>