Lovejoy v. Robinson

Lovejoy brought an action before a justice of the peace against Bobinson, alleging that the defendant’s cattle had broken his close and destroyed his crops. On appeal to the Common Pleas, there was a trial by jury, verdict, and judgment for the plaintiff for five dollars, from which he appeals to this Court.

Pn the trial the plaintiff gave evidence tending to prove that the defendant’s cattle had broken into his field and injured his crops to the amount of 75 dollars. The defendant, against the plaintiff’s objection, was permitted to prove that the plaintiff, in driving the cattle- from the…