Hodges v. Causey
Mississippi Supreme Court
From: the circuit court of Sunflower county. HoN. F. A. Mosttgomeey, Judge. • Hodges, the appellant, was the plaintiff in the court below; Causey, appellee, was defendant there. The suit was an action of trespass for-the killing by defendant of plaintiff’s dog — an English deerhound.
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From: the circuit court of Sunflower county. HoN. F. A. Mosttgomeey, Judge. • Hodges, the appellant, was the plaintiff in the court below; Causey, appellee, was defendant there. The suit was an action of trespass for-the killing by defendant of plaintiff’s dog — an English deerhound. At the trial of the case defendant’s evidence showed, or tended to show,-that at the time of the killing the dog was running through defendant’s field, and that the killing was done to prevent the. dog from damaging appellee’s cotton, which was in the same field with the corn, through the rows of which •the-dog…
1Opinion of the CourtWeiteiet.d, J.
It may be that “property in clogs is of an imperfect or qualified nature,” as held in Sentell v. Railroad Co., 166 U. S., 698 (17 Sup. Ct., 693, 41 L. Ed., 1169); Ward v. State, 48 Ala., 161; Town of Wilton v. Town of Weston, 48 Conn., 325; and City of Carthage v. Rhodes, 101 Mo., 175 (14 S. W., 181, 9 L. R. A., 352). And it is doubtless true that much of the conflict of decision touching this subject is due to the varying statutes of different spates as regards their being the subject of larceny, etc. Put it is very correctly said in the learned note to Hamby v. Samson (Iowa), 67 Am. St.…
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