Haynes v. County of Missoula

Plaintiffs secured a jury verdict in the amount of $80,650 for the loss of two horses in a fire at the Missoula County fairgrounds in August 1967, and judgment was entered thereon. Subsequently the district court of Missoula County, the Honorable Jack L. Green, district judge, granted defendants Missoula County and its Pair Board a new trial. From the order granting defendants a new trial, plaintiffs appeal.

Plaintiffs arc Bill and Fay Haynes, the owners of two registered quarter horses destroyed in the fire and American Livestock Insurance Company, a material damage carrier. American paid the…