City of Greencastle v. Martin

Bicknell, C.

The city of Greencastle had an ordinance to prevent certain animals from running at large in the city. The ordinance required the city marshal to take up and impound such animals, and to give immediate notice thereof by posting ; and, if the owner should fail to appear within forty-eight hours after the posting, then to sell the animals, etc. Under this ordinance, the city marshal took up and impounded the appellee’s mare, and kept her in the city pound, from Monday until the next Friday morning, without any posting or offer to sell; and then the mare jumped over the pound fence…