Potter Title & Trust Co. v. Oswald & Hess Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

An ordinance of the City of Pittsburgh permits cattle to be driven through the streets between the hours of ten o’clock p. m. and eight o’clock a. m. Seventeen heifers belonging to defendant, which is engaged in the meat packing business, were being driven in the usual and customary way from the stockyards to defendant’s plant about two o’clock in the morning by three experienced drovers along a city street when three of the herd bolted and disappeared in the darkness. They remained at large until about three o’clock in the afternoon, when they entered the yard…