Hill v. Owen

Case against an innkeeper for so carelessly. managing a horse, placed in his keeping by a guest, that the • animal came to his death. Plea, not guilty. Verdict for the plaintiff; motion for a new trial overruled, and judgment on the verdict.

The plaintiff having introduced testimony tending to prove that the horse was delivered to the defendant, as an innkeeper, apparently in a healthy condition, in the evening, and that he was found dead in the defendant’s stable on the next morning,-y-the Court instructed the jury, that the *324livery of the horse to the defendant, and the death of the animal…