Loomis v. Board of Supervisors

By the Court—Johnson, J.

The action was brought under the statute of 1855 (Sess. Laws of 1855, chap. 428) to recover the value of property held and owned by the plaintiffs as tenants in common, which had been destroyed by a mob. The only ground on which the defendants’ counsel asks for a new trial is upon a quention of law arising on an exception to the charge to the jury. The plaintiffs held and owned the premises destroyed as tenants in common, and it was shown upon the trial that a certain number of them, several days before the assembling of the mob and the occurrence of the injury, *270had…