Van Slyck v. Snell
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from the judgment of a County Court reversing the judgment of a Justice’s Court. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court—Johnson, J.
The action was trespass for defendants’ cattle breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close, eating and destroying the grass, and trampling upon and injuring the soil of a certain meadow. The plaintiff recovered judgment in the Justice’s Court where the action was brought, which was reversed on appeal by the County Court.
' The judgment was a joint judgment against both defendants, and the reversal was placed upon the ground that no cause of action was made out by the evidence in the Justice’s Court against Jacob Suell, one of the defendants, and that a judgment against…
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