A Frolicsome Arabian Stallion.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Frolicsome Arabian Stallion.

A buit was tried in one of our oity oourts the other day against Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., for injury done to the plaintiff (a Mr. Bailey) by a vicious horse. Some years ago Gen. Grant had presented to him a pair of Arabian stallions, which were being kopt at his son's farm in Westchester County. One day one of the stallions was ridden to a atore in the village, and hitched to a post. At this time Mr. Bailey was coming down the road in a two-horse wagon loaded with eleven cans of milk. Mr. Bailey, on the witness stand, told substantially the following story of what next happened :— The young man who rode the horse had soaroely entered the store when the ■tallion threw up his head, pulled of the head-

stall, and started up the road. He came in contact with the complainant's horses, kicked and bit them, and crowded them into a ditch. The stallion then put his fore feet into the wagon, up=et the milk cans, and then he leaped into tho wagon like a dog and sat down in che complainant's lap. Then he kicked Mr. Bailey over backward, pawed him out of tho wagon, jumped out, kicked over the wagon, tore the harness, rtnd caused the witness' horees to run away. The hort-r thm pawed the complainant in the face, broke a rib on the left aide, injured his spine, badly bruising his shoulder, and left him unconscious upon the frozen ground. Mr. Bailey was as«isted home, and has since been an invalid. Tue defence was that U. S. Grant, Jr., did not own the horse ; that he offered to settle all damages to wagon, horses, milk and harness, and to pay Bailey's doctor bill, and that the offer was declined. The jury gave Bailey a verdict for 'ivOOO. — Scientific American.