Hughey v. Fergus County

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

The plaintiff, J. Edgar Hughey, brought action against Fergus county and Claude C. White, superintendent of the county poor farm, for damages for injuries inflicted upon him by a bull owned by the county. The basis of the action is negligence in failing to keep an allegedly vicious bull confined. The defendants joined issue by separate answers; White alleged contributory negligence; the county did not. The case was tried to a jury in November, 1933. At the close of plaintiff’s case, the court granted a nonsuit on the ground that contributory negligence,…