Case ID: ill-app_187/html/0253-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John W. Barnes, Defendant in Error, v. Sleph, Sandrowitz & Goldblatt Company, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 19,625.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Courtney, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1913.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed May 25, 1914.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by John W. Barnes against Sleph, Sandrowitz & Goldblatt Company to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s horse caused by being struck by a team drawing a heavily loaded wagon claimed to belong to defendant. To reverse a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant brings error.
    Saltiel & Rossen, for plaintiff in error.
    Daniel A. Levy, for defendant in error.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Negligence, § 187
      
      —evidence sufficient to show negligence in driving team and wagon. In an action for the death of plaintiffs horse, claimed to have been caused by being struck by a team and wagon owned by defendant, a judgment for plaintiff held sustained by evidence sufficient to show defendant’s negligence, where there was evidence that plaintiff’s horse hitched to a wagon was standing still behind another wagon and that defendant’s team was driven past the front wagon and into plaintiff’s horse and wagon.
    2. Damages, § 47*—when evidence sufficient to show horse died as result of injuries. In an action to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s horse caused by being struck by a team and wagon belonging to defendant, a judgment for plaintiff held sustained by evidence showing that the horse died as a result of the injuries, where there was evidence that the horse of plaintiff, a small animal, was knocked down and a wheel of defendant’s loaded wagon ran over it, that the horse was taken to a hospital for treatment and died shortly thereafter and that before the accident it had been in good physical condition.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vola XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.'