Haller v. Sheridan

This was an action for the value of a dog which it is alleged the appellant tilled. The answer was in two paragraphs: 1. The general denial. 2. That the defendant was marshal of the town of Attica, and that the trustees of said town had required all the owners of dogs within said town to muzzle them securely, or keep them upon their own premises, and had directed the said marshal to kill all dogs found running at large in violation of the ordinance. The fourth section of the ordinance recites, that “whereas many-rabid dogs are reported to be running at large in the country adjacent to the…