Hale v. Van Dever

— This suit originated in a justice’s court and was appealed to the circuit court, where plaintiff' obtained a judgment, from which defendant has duly appealed to this court. The following is the statement filed by plaintiff' in the justice’s court: “Plaintiff states that about the 1st day of February, 1875, at the county of He Kalb, State' of Missouri, defendant did wrongfully maim, wound and kill the hogs of plaintiff', by which acts and *733doings of the defendant plaintiff is damaged in the sum of $40, for which, with costs of suit, plaintiff asks judg ment.” The evidence established the fact…