Moebius v. Williams

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

This was a suit for shooting and killing the plaintiff’s dog. There were two defendants, as to one of whom nonsuit was entered without objection of plaintiff, and when the plaintiff rested his case an involuntary nonsuit was also entered as to the defendant Williams. Prom that nonsuit the present appeal is taken.

The ground of nonsuit appears to have been that it was conclusively established .on plaintiff’s evidence “that his dog had been killing chickens, or was in the act of killing chickens, and that the killing of the dog was therefore…