Legal Opinion

Stager v. Harrington

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided January 15, 1882PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Error from Brown District Court. At the May Term, 1881, of the district court, the defendant Harrington obtained a certain order and judgment against plaintiff Stager, who brings the case here. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

*417The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

This is an action brought by Joseph Stager against Eldred Harrington before a justice of the peace of Hiawatha township, Brown county, to recover $779, as damages, alleged to have been caused to the plaintiff’s cattle by reason of the defendant bringing into Brown county, from the country south of Kansas, a herd of cattle commonly known as Indian cattle, or Texas cattle, which herd of cattle communicated to the plaintiff’s cattle a deadly disease commonly known as Spanish fever, or Texas-cattle fever, or splenic fever, and thereby injured…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Railroad Co. v. HusenSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  2. Hoberg v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1859
  3. State v. StackhouseSupreme Court of Kansas · 1880
  4. Fish v. SmithIndiana Supreme Court · 1859
  5. State v. BrownSupreme Court of Kansas · 1879

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Little v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1934
  2. Tawzer v. McAdamSupreme Court of Kansas · 1932
  3. Ogg v. GloverSupreme Court of Kansas · 1905
  4. Howard v. MillerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1971
  5. Zukas v. Appleton Manufacturing Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1917

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