Woolsey v. Haas

The defendant is charged in the complaint with shooting and wounding the plaintiff’s dog, for which the plaintiff'brought this action for damages. The cause was submitted to the court without the intervention of a jury. The evidence for plaintiff tended to prove that the defendant shot the dog while trailing a deer through his premises. The evidence for the defendant was, in substance, that the dog was on his farm at the time he shot him; that he was not trailing a deer, and that he had reason to believe, and did *199believe, that the dog was about to attack his sheep, which were in an adjoining…