Carpenter v. Latta
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Linn District Court. The nature of the action, and the facts, appear in the opinion. At the July Term, 1882, of the district court, defendants Latta and another recovered a judgment against plaintiff Carpenter, who brings the case here.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
'Valentine, J.:
The plaintiff in error commenced this action before a justice of the peace, by filing a bill of particulars, in which he alleged that the defendants owned a bull, which they permitted to run at large; that plaintiff owned a mare; that the bull, while permitted to run at large, gored the mare so that she died; and claiming judgment for the value of the mare. The case, after judgment in the justice’s court, was appealed to the district court, where a trial was had, before the court and a jury.
The evidence adduced on the trial, showed that…
2Cited by1 opinion
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