Legal Opinion

Hume v. Scott

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided April 7, 1821PublishedCited by 1 opinion

On a writ cf error tore? verse, a judgment of the Bourbon circuit court.

1Opinion of the Court

Judge Mills

delivered the opinion

Tins is a» action on the cast, hr>ught by the appellees agait si the appellant, to subject him to damages on account of tile death of a ergro lured or pledged to the appellant, through harsh treatment and neglect. The errors assigned question the decision of that court in refusing to grant a new trial, because the verdict was against law and evidence. The evidence is in part circumstantial, and some* what contradictor!; hut without reciting the facts, we concur with the court below in not disturbing the verdict, after a jury bad passed upo» the facts, whose…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Commonwealth ex rel. Clark v. WilliamsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1823

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Osborne v. HeltonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1941

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