Russell v. Fagan
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the Case to recover for the loss of a mare while in the stable attached to the defendant’s inn. The facts fully appear from the charge of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Comegys, C. J.,
charging the jury :
This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover from the defendant damages to the extent of $500 for the breaking of one of the hind legs of the plaintiff’s mare, while she was in the defendant’s stable in Wilmington.
The plaintiff is a citizen of the State of Pennsylvania, resident at Landenberg, in Chester County, and the defendant, at the time of the disaster, was and yet is a common innkeeper or hotel keeper at the sign of the White Horse in this city. On the day before the time of the accident the plaintiff, having occasion to Wilmington, came here in…
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