Crow v. McKown
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from DeKalb Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Action by J. O. Crow against J. H. McKown for damages for killing Ms dog. Judglnent for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Transferred from the Court of Appeals under the act creating said court.
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
TMs case was transferred to this court from the Court of Appeals as provided by law. The cause of action arose from the killing by appellee of a dog, the property of the appellant. The defense seems to have been justification for the act for that the dog, together with a number of others, was, at the time he was shot, engaged in an attack upon a goat or kid, the property of the defendant, at the premises of *481the defendant, and from which attack the animal died.(1) The bill of exceptions does not disclose that the evidence there set out was all the evidence in the case, and, under the rule of…
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