Aldrich v. Reichert

Appellant, G. W. Aldrich, obtained a judgment for $50 against appellee, Ed Reichert, in an action before a justice of the peace to recover the value of appellant’s dog, which appellee had killed. There was an appeal to the circuit court of Pulaski county and a trial de novo. It appeared from the evidence that at the time appellee shot the dog it was on his premises and that it was not wearing a metallic tag, as required by the provisions of the act of 1919 providing for the licensing of dogs. The court held that this act, which provides, “It shall be lawful for any person to kill all…