Keifer v. Smith

Morrissey, C. J7

The legislature of 1911 created a stallion registration board, whose duty it was to pass upon pedigrees, and to license stallions for breeding purposes either as pure breds or grades. The members of the board were the secretary of the state board of agriculture, the professor of animal husbandry of the state university, and the deputy state veterinarian. In 1912 the board examined a purported pedigree of a stallion known as “Marquis De Wierre” and certified him as a pure bred Percheron. The horse was not a pure bred, but a grade, and upon a re-examination, two years later, the…