Dalzell v. McClintock

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sims

Affirming.

In this action the appellant, F. S. Dalzell, sought to recover of appellee, W. G-. McClintock, $1587.45 for the death of 70 hogs, including the cost of treating them while sick. The petition as amended averred that the hogs died from cholera or some other “communicable disease” as the result of the alleged negligence of appellee in failing to comply with KRS 257.160 in disposing of the carcasses of diseased hogs dying on his premises, from which carcasses appellant’s hogs contracted the disease and died. The verdict was in favor of Mc-Clintock and…