Mitchell v. Excelsior Water & Mining Co.

Plaintiff in Ms complaint alleged, in effect, that, in the fall of 1916, he delivered 188 head of horned cattle and one horse to defendant upon defendant’s ranges near Smartsville, in the county of Tuba, for the purpose of being pastured during the winter of 1916-17; that after receipt of the animals, defendant negligently and carelessly failed to furnish them with proper food and shelter, and because thereof, the horse and fifty-nine head of cattle died, and others of the animals were lessened in value, and as a result thereof plaintiff was damaged in the sum of seven thousand four hundred…