Snow v. McCracken

Defendant’s dog killed plaintiff’s chickens. Plaintiff sued in justice’s court, and filed a declamation, in which it is alleged that the defendant was the “owner or possessor” of the dog, and that he “well knew that his said dog was mischievous, and disposed to and in the habit of killing fowls.” Plaintiff recovered a judgment of $22 in the justice’s court. Defendant appealed to the circuit court, where a jury rendered a verdict against him, the amount of which is not shown by the record. No objection was made to the declamation in the justice’s court, the defendant pleading the general…