Thickstun v. Howard

Action on the case. The declaration avers that on the 20th of November, 1844, at said county of Sullivan, the defendant was a common innkeeper and that the plaintiff was lodged in the inn of the defendant; that the plaintiff was then and there possessed of a certain gray horse of the value of 40 dollars, which said horse was delivered to the said defendant to be kept for hire; and that said horse, for want of safe-keeping and by reason of the negligence of the said defendant, was killed at the defendant’s inn; wherefore the plaintiff had sustained damage, &c. The trial in the Circuit Court…