Wedd v. Gates

Opinion of the court by

Burwell, J.:

Tbis action was commenced in tbe district court of Pawnee county by Tolbert Gates against the appellant, John Wedd, and the other defendants in error, alleging that the defendants had driven certain cattle across the quarantine line, and that they were at the time infected with Texas fever, which was communicated to the cattle of the plaintiff, from the effects of which they sickened and died, to the damage of the plaintiff in the sum of twelve hundred, thirty seven and 50jl00 dollars.

Gates then filed an amended petition, in which he sought to recover…