Chandler v. Smith

This is an action by the appellee against the appellant for tearing down a barn occupied by the appellee as a livery, boarding and sale stable. He has recovered $800, for $589 of which the brief of his counsel accounts as the loss on horses which he sold at a sacrifice. True, the brief says the whole damages, for which he undertakes to give items, should have been $1,022.

Selling his horses at a sacrifice may have been dictated by many other reasons than tearing down the barn. That appellee had no place to take bis horses and could get none, is a matter the law takes no notice of. The…