Brewster v. Weir

This was a suit by Weir, a livery stable keeper, to recover the value of a horse let to Brewster to drive, and which died during the drive. Plaintiff recovered $125 before a justice and in' the Circuit Court, and defendant prosecutes this further appeal.

Plaintiff claimed defendant killed the horse by over-driving. Upon this subject the evidence was conflicting. While the verdict might well have been the other way, we are unable to say another jury would reach a different conclusion from the same evidence, or that the present verdict, approved bv the trial judge, ought to be disturbed.

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