Kesler v. Jones

Appellants were jointly engaged under proper permit from the state in the business of raising fur-bearing animals. Under their agreement Mr. and Mrs. Davis had the care, custody and possession of one cross-bred fox named “Eva,” the property of the other appellant. Sep tember 24, 1928, Eva escaped from her pen and was on*a marauding foray in the village of McCall, among the chickens of Mrs. White, a near neighbor, who called to her assistance another neighbor, Dr. Jones, who shot and killed the fox, as the court found, not knowing that it had escaped from captivity or was the property of…