Hinshaw v. Gilpin

This suit was commenced by the appellant, as plaintiff, against the appellee, as defendant, before a justice of the peace of Hamilton county, in a complaint of a single paragraph, wherein the appellant alleged, that, on the 8th day of September, 1876, and frequently since, the appellee suffered his cattle, to wit, four cóws and one yearling bull, to unlawfully break into the appellant’s cornfield, and destroy a large quantity of corn therein growing, to the appellant’s damage in the sum of fifty dollars. Wherefore, etc.

The trial of the cause before the justice resulted in a judgment for the…