Brown v. Graham

Calkins, C.

The plaintiff and defendant were neighboring farmers, their residences being near together, and separated by a wire fence. Each owned a dog; and the two dogs were discovered fighting near the residences of the parties, and upon the defendant’s side of the fence, by the defendant’s hired man. While the latter was endeavoring to separate the dogs, and as the plaintiff’s wife and children appeared upon the scene, the defendant came with a revolver and fired two or three shots at plaintiff’s dog, some one or more of Avhich proved fatal to the dog, and he died upon his master’s…