122 HoKsi: wAiin \MV. 



Somctiinos an injury is ihnw ]>y tlio driver or 

 rider of n liorso, wlit-ro tlio iraniedijito cause of the 

 injury or accident is due to something else, as where 

 tlie rider or driver of a restive or runaway liorse 

 becomes nervous and loses his head and pulls 

 the horse in the wrong direction. Sometimes a 

 nervous driver makes his horses nervous ; some- 

 times the horses, bolting or kicking, frigliten the 

 driver and ho contril)utes to injuries to himself or 

 Fhun V. to liis carriage or team. In Floircr v. Adam {d) 

 the facts were as follows : — Some bricklayers, em- 

 ployed by the defendant, had wrongfully laid a 

 large heap of lime rubbish opposite the defen- 

 dant's door and on the side of the highway. 

 AVhilst the plaintill" was passing in Ids chaise 

 the wind blew about the rubbish, and the dust 

 frightened the plaintiff's horse, causing it to 

 shio on one side, when the plaintiff, to prevent 

 the chaise running against a waggon, pulled the 

 horse sharp round, and in doing so drove over 

 a lime heap oi)posito another man's door. This 

 ciiused the shaft to break, and the horse becom- 

 ing more frightened, ran away and upsetting 

 the chaise threw the ]>l:iiiitilF out and injured 

 him: it was held, that though the dffendant 

 was to Idaiiii' for jmlting the rubbish beside the 

 road, yet if tin* iilaintiU'M running against the 

 second lieaj) was owing to his pulling the horse 

 shar]) round, the immediate cause of the injury 



(rf) 2 Taunton, 314. 



