Dudley v. Love

The defendants are partners engaged in business as butchers, and as such operate a slaughterhouse in the vicinity of a public road. They are sued in this action for the value of a hound belonging to plaintiff, which, as the statement alleges, was killed by them wantonly, maliciously and negligently. Upon the trial the plaintiff recovered a verdict for the sum of eight dollars, and the defendants appeal, and assign for error that the verdict is not supported by sufficient evidence, and that the court erred in refusing an instruction offered by them.

On part of the plaintiff there was direct…