Copeland v. Landrum

Pannell, Judge.

1. In this action 'by a plaintiff owner against a defendant for the alleged wilful and malicious killing by the defendant of a dog belonging to plaintiff and seeking general and punitive damages, the evidence was sufficient to authorize a finding that the defendant shot and killed the dog in question in the honest belief that said dog was the same dog, also belonging to the plaintiff, that had previously bitten a child and was vicious, and that the dog killed had just attacked defendant’s child and was about to attack him. The trial judge, to whom the case was submitted,…