Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Quinn

Citations

• 56 Ill. 319

Syllabus

<p>Comparative negligence. In an action against a telegraph company for the loss of the plaintiff’s horse and wagon, occasioned by the alleged negligence of the defendants’ servants, while engaged in repairing a telegraph line on one of the streets in the city of Chicago, in so handling a broken wire as to strike the horse, thereby frightening him and causing him to run, resulting in his death, it appeared the driver had left the horse, attached to a wagon, standing loose in the street, and, if the accident was attributable to the cause alleged, the negligence of the driver, in failing to secure the horse properly, or have him under his control, was so much greater than that of the defendants, that there could he no recovery.</p>