Chamberlain v. Lindsey

Smith, O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.'

The appellee, an infant three years of age, sued the appellants by his father, as next friend, for an injury sustained by him from being kicked by a horse, belonging to the appellants, which was running at large in the town of Houston, Mississippi. The injury was inflicted either on the premises of the child’s father or in the street adjacent thereto, but just which is not clear from the evidence. The town of Houston has an ordinance prohibiting animals from running at large therein.

The horse was usually confined, when not in use, on the…