Westchester Electric Railroad v. Angevine
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Gilbert J. Angevine, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 23d day of Hay, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 12th day of June,1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a hew trial made upon the¡ minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The plaintiff brings this action to recover damages sustained by it through the killing of three of its horses by the defendant in June, 1896. The killing of the horses was admitted by the defendant, who alleged that they were afflicted with “ glanders,” and that under and pursuant -to- the authority conferred upon him by the board of health of the city of Mount Vernon, which board was duly consti-tuted under the laws of the State and had jurisdiction of the matter, he duly destroyed said horses ; that said board had duly declared that "the horses were afflicted with…
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