Ward v. Benge

Eberhardt, Judge.

In the vernacular of my boyhood days this is a real, genuine “dog-gone” case. A little bitch named “Boy”—a contradiction so confusing perhaps even to the animal itself that it may have decided to seek another shelter and another master—was the “bone of contention” in a trial that lasted long enough to produce a 125 page brief of the evidence in the record on appeal. A review of that evidence discloses that the plaintiff’s claim of ownership was amply supported—a claim which the defendant never denied. But the evidence was in sharp conflict as to whether the defendant had ever…