Columbia Township v. Pipes

The complaint of the appellees is founded ■on the statute which provides for the payment by a township for sheep killed and maimed by dogs. Elliott’s Supp., sections 444h-453. It is alleged that the appellees were the owners of a flock of sheep kept and pastured on their farm in Columbia township; that forty-five sheep were killed, and *240forty maimed, by dogs not owned or harbored by the appellees, between the 1st day of May, 188.3, and the 1st day of August of that year; that the sheep were killed and injured in Columbia township; that within ten days from the time that the sheep were so…