Reeves v. Larkin
Supreme Court of Missouri
Jippeal from, St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. Action to recover the value of a mule alleged to have died from injuries received in hauling a loaded dray across a sewer constructed by the defendants, and negligently covered. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtGamble, Judge
I. The instructions given by the court, on its own motion, require that the jury, before finding for the plaintiff, shall be satisfied that the defendants so negligently and improperly filled up the sewer made by them across the levee, that by reason thereof the plaintiff’s mule was injured, and that the plaintiff was not guilty of any negligence or carelessness in the management of his dray and mule, at the time of the injury. In the instructions given by the court, on its own motion, as well as in the instructions given at the request of the defendants, the rule is placed prominently before…
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