Bosworth v. Barker

The appellant, Richard Bosworth, brought this action against the ap'pellee, Henry Barker, before a justice of the peace.

The cause was afterward appealed to the circuit court, where, upon a trial by a jury, there was a verdict and a judgment for the defendant.

*596The complaint was in two paragraphs.

The first charged, that the defendant set his dogs upon, and worried and injured, two of the plaintiff’s hogs, and that the hogs died from the injuries thus inflicted upon them.

The second charged, substantially, the same wrongful acts against the defendant, except that there was no averment that the…