Chastain v. Johns

According to the petition, Mark Chastain, the minor son of the defendant in the court below, did on a named day “maliciously and negligently shoot, injure and kill, with a rifle, gún, or other instrument of death, one horse, one hog, and other stock, cattle, and hogs of petitioner,” damaging her one thousand dollars. She alleged that the defendant, as the father and natural guardian of the youthful cause of the trouble, is “ liable for all loss and injury caused by all acts or torts committed by ” him. It was not alleged that the father participated in, connived at, or. had any knowledge of…