Cockerham v. . Nixon

This was a case, for an injury done to the plaintiff’s horse by the defendant’s bull. The plaintiff proved, that a bull of the defendant, while running at large, gored his horse and killed it. One Cannady swore, that before the horse was killed, he was giving salt to a cow, when the bull came up — whereupon the bull made after him and forced him to jump on a fence near at hand, and he stated these facts to the defendant and told him, he would have .shot his bull, if he had had a gun.

The Court charged, that it was not necessary to shew, that the defendant had knowledge of a vicious habit of…