Painter v. Guirl

This suit was commenced by the appellee, against the appellant, before a justice of the peace of Jennings county, Indiana, to recover damages in the sum of seventy dollars, for or on account of the appellant’s alleged abuse of a certain mare, hired to him by the appellee. The trial of the cause by a jury, before the justice, resulted in a verdict and judgment for the appellee in the sum of twenty dollars. An appeal was taken from this judgment, by the appellant, the defendant below, to the circuit court of said county; where another trial of the cause by a jury was had, resulting in a verdict…