Douglass v. Trask
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions and motion to set aside the verdict from the. superior court. The opinion states the case. The verdict was for seventy-two dollars and thirty cents, and; the defendant moved to set it aside and alleged exceptions to the-instruction recited in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLibbey, J.
This is an action for breach of warranty of the soundness of a horse bought by the plaintiff of the defendant, May 1, 1883. The alleged unsounduess was a curb which caused the horse to be lame.
The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to prove, that, on the next day after the purchase, the horse showed some lameness, *36and had an- enlargement on its hind leg, which proved to be a curb. The defendant contended that the horse was sound at the time of the sale, and introduced evidence tending to prove that it had shown no lameness, and had no enlargement on its leg prior to and at the time of the…
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