Barton v. Dowis

The plaintiff recovered judgment in the Circuit Court of Nodaway County, for the sum of $1614.42, damages accrue ing on account of the death of his hogs from cholera, which he claims was caused by diseased hogs purchased from the defendants.

The ease was first appealed to the Kansas City Court of Appeals, where the judgment of the trial court was affirmed. That court deeming the opinion in conflict with that of the Springfield Court of Appeals in the case of Wells v. Welch, 205 Mo. App. 136, certified the case to this court.

In September, 1923, the plaintiff was tenant on a farm in Nodaway…