Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-06-16

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road faro. on Saturday afternoon october l3th,
Mt Hagen went over TO Mr. W. u porcr's,
plaintiffs brothcr-in-law, and ncighbor Of
Ilazcns at Hartford, and told him that the throsh-
ers were coming on Monday, and that he must
| have Eliza to do the work Ills wife had not then
-bcen confined, but was expecting to be every day
| Porter took a three-year-old horse and open
| buggy and went to Mr. Whitneys house and on
| Sunday morning started back for Hartford with
| plaintiff Up n this point there is no essential
contradiction between plaintiff and defendant
version Of the case Porter testified that having
arrived st the top Of the Downcr hill, in Sharon,
they were proceeding at moderate pace down
hill it was raining, and Miss Whitney was holding
an umbrella over them suddenly some cattle APP
peared in the road aud in particular one steer kept
running along with the team, making peculiar
noise this frightened the horse and he gave a
tremendous start, breaking the harness and
thence becoming uncomfortable. lie bounded
down the hill, went ovcrthe bank, and prcciptatcd
them hcadlong into the White river, some fifty
feet below the road Porter picked plaintiff out
Of the water left her ON the bank, and went for
assistance to The house Of Ebcu Doubleday, near
by. While he was gone, plaintiff managed to get
along herself and probably reached Mr. Double
days house unaded there her clothes were
changed, and 10 was generally supposed that her
| injuries were slight Porter, meanwhile, went
! across tho river for his horse which had swan
the stream, and he and some Others eXtricated the
buggy, whose shafts had been broken in the de-
scent About this time rortcr's brother Lyman b g.,
came along, and took plaintiff and him To Hart
/ ford The main discrepancies between plaintiffs
aud defendants versions were as follows De
| PENDANT claimed that instead Of the steer fright
euiug the horse, It was the breaking Of ror-
ter. ro,icn harness, and that portion Of the
mg.stmp and bely-grih were found up the
hu about where the accident began. aud were
shown 10 Porter at Doubcday's house that
these were quite weak. wcro wet and obviously
unsafe for use. Porter denied the showing
and stated that he had never seen the pieces in
question from that day 10 this The evidence
tended to show that the harness cost some thirty
dollars, and had been used some six years Tor drv-
ing Defendant also claimed that Porter and Miss
Whitney gave different versions at Donb.eday 3
OF the origin Of the accident than now. and that
the steer. tould not have been 100 The road as
plaintiff claimed, for they had been shut zap in
Diublclay's yard previous 30 their coming along
The road boz question WAS very broad smooth
road over twenty feet wide In the main part
and iu fact theonly insufcioncy claimed hy plniu-
til wa. the want of railing at the edge OF tlo
hank Tie jury, at the request Of the town. were
T,o r,,1 ,n1 tbe r,,tcnn... m p,,tsr.. barnes.
the main deoneos made 10y the town wcre the
SUNDAY question, statement VI which is given
elsewhere in this report. and the hnpudeucc Of
Miss Whitney as 20 care and medical treatment
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