Skinn v. Reutter
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Ingham; Wiest, J. C.ase by Joseph Skinn and another against Gottlieb Reutter and another for selling certain diseased hogs. From a judgment for defendants on verdict directed by the court, plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The declaration in this case alleges that defendants unlawfully sold certain hogs to a firm of live-stock dealers, knowing that said hogs were “afflicted *58with a dangerous and infectious disease; ” that they did not notify said firm of this fact; that said firm, in ignorance of the fact that said hogs were so infected, sold and delivered them to plaintiffs, who, without negligence on their part, placed them in a pen with their sound swine, which contracted the disease and died. The defendants pleaded the general issue. The case came on for trial before a jury, and, after the plaintiffs had…
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