Forks Township v. King
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan county: Of July Term 1875, No. 49. Case brought by King against Forks township to recifv^r damages for the value of his mare, alleged to have been killed by the negligence of defendant’s officers in not keeping the highway in safe condition. Plea, “Not guilty.” The plaintiff loaned the mare to Ellis Hoagland to use in his team.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan county: Of July Term 1875, No. 49. Case brought by King against Forks township to recifv^r damages for the value of his mare, alleged to have been killed by the negligence of defendant’s officers in not keeping the highway in safe condition. Plea, “Not guilty.” The plaintiff loaned the mare to Ellis Hoagland to use in his team. The other material facts, together with the offers of evidence made at the trial before Elwell, P. J., are stated in the opinion of this court. The fifth and seventh points of the defendant and the answers of the court…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
This action was brought by the plaintiff below to recover damages for the loss of a mare belonging to him, in the possession of Ellis Hoagland, caused, as was alleged, by the unsafe condition of the road over which she was being driven. Hoagland, with this mare and another horse of his own, hitched to a loaded wagon, was returning from New Albany to Eorksville on the 24th of February 1872. In descending a mountain four or five miles from Forksville, along a dug-way, the wagon slid off the road, dragging the horses with it, and the mare of the plaintiff was killed either by the fall or by…
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