Holden v. Varner

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment entered against him on a jury’s verdict awarding plaintiff $250 damages for the castration by defendant of plaintiff’s bull.

Defendant assigns as error the insufficiency of the evidence,— that the jury disregarded the law, — that the trial court admitted improper evidence and refused to give an instruction offered by defendant.

At the time here involved the plaintiff, LeRoy Holden, owned a farm located about three miles distant from Stevensville, Montana. In the spring and summer of 1950 plaintiff owned sixteen head of…