Shelly v. Vanarsdoll

Suit by Shelly, the appellant, before a justice of the peace, against Vanarsdoll, the appellee, to recover the value of a cow (the property of the former) which the latter wrongfully took and converted to his own use. Answer in denial, and a counter-claim as follows : “ The defendant, for a further answer to plaintiff’s complaint, says that the identical cow sued for by the plaintiff was a breaehy, unruly cow; that she came to his (defendant’s) farm, and being ‘wont to push with her horns,’ did throw down defendant’s fences, the same being of lawful bight, and trespass upon his grass and…