Volume 16 , Issue 39

1914, Driver Is Responsible

This is an interesting story I found in The Tulsa Daily World, dated Wednesday, 18 November 1914, concerning "Driver Is Responsible." Most horse drawn wagons keep their teams under control and ignore safety to public.

It was 17 November 1914 when we find out about this driver of a horse-drawn vehicle had a responsibility to the public even if he was driving only a wagon, according to a holding of the supreme court commission, division No. 2, in an opinion by Justice Brewer.

The case is that of Charles Abbott and Adam Boggs vs. Rebecca Dingus, appealed from Cleveland County and affirmed. Rebecca Dingus brought suit for damages against the plaintiffs in error for the value of a carriage which was smashed to atoms by a runaway team, belonging to the former, which was driven by Ivy Brown.

It was alleged that Brown, through carelessness and because of faulty harness, permitted the team to run away, which ran into the buggy, wrecking it. The court holds the driver of a horse-drawn vehicle is to exercise reasonable care to the end of keeping his horses and vehicles under control as to be able to prevent collision with other vehicles or pedestrians on the highway. A judgement of $225 in favor of Rebecca Dingus in the lower court was affirmed.
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