Bowlus v. Brier

Black, C.

This was an action commenced before a justice 'of the peace by the appellees against the appellants, the complaint alleging, in substance, that the defendants hired of the plaintiffs, who were keepers of a livery stable, a team of two horses and a buggy, to be driven by the defendants from the -town of Williamsport to the city of Crawfordsville, a distance of twenty-eight miles; that pursuant to said hiring the plaintiffs entrusted said team and buggy to the defendants for said use; that said horses, while so in possession of defendants, were by them, or by others with their…