Young v. Harvey

Young sued Harvey for the value of a horse alleged to have been killed through the negligence of the latter. The facts in the case are as follows:

Harvey, the defendant, commenced digging a well upon a lot owned by him. He sunk it to the depth of six feet, being forty-two inches across, and then abandoned it. It was located in an uninclosed lot, near the line of a street, in a suburb of Indianapolis, but without the corporate limits. It *315remained a long time in this condition, except that it was sometimes partially covered over with loose boards, never entirely, and most of the time not at all.…