Kerbow v. Bell

O’NEAL, Justice.

The parties here will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

Eugene A. Bell, on March the 21st, 1951, was the owner of four registered hound dogs; they responded to the names of “Blue Thunder”, “Blue Drive”, “Blue Mose”, and “Blue Sue.” Blue Thunder was three years old and the other dogs were eight months old. On that day the hounds were engaged in an inordinate amount of scratching and plaintiff assumed that they were infected by parasitic mites which burrow into the skin and live in the hair follicles or sebaceous glands. In other words, the hounds had the mange.…