Pusey v. Webb
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the case for damages for the loss of a gray mare owned by the plaintiff. It was claimed by the plaintiff that the defendant negligently permitted the foot of the mare to be cut while shoeing her at his blacksmith shop in the town of Milford, and that from the wound caused thereby blood poison set in, resulting in the death of the mare. The plea was not guilty. The narr consisted of three counts.
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Action on the case for damages for the loss of a gray mare owned by the plaintiff. It was claimed by the plaintiff that the defendant negligently permitted the foot of the mare to be cut while shoeing her at his blacksmith shop in the town of Milford, and that from the wound caused thereby blood poison set in, resulting in the death of the mare. The plea was not guilty. The narr consisted of three counts. The first count was for money laid out and expended by the plaintiff in the cure and healing of the mare. The second, for damages for the loss of labor of the mare. The third count was for…
1Opinion of the Court
Boyce, J.:
We have considered this question as fully as we could in the short time afforded us, and we decline to grant a non-suit.
Boyce, J., charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—This action was brought by the plaintiff for the recovery of damages from the defendant for the death of a mare belonging to the plaintiff, and for money laid out and expended by him for medicine and medical services procured for her.
The plaintiff charges that on, or about, the twenty-third day of February, 1899, he delivered his mare into the custody of the defendant, at the blacksmith shop of the latter, in the…
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