Stagner v. Craig

The Court of Appeals has affirmed a judgment for damages for the killing of a dog by defendant driving a motor ear on the public highway. The case is here on petition for certiorari, which has been granted and argument heard.

The negligent killing and the amount of the award are questions of fact settled by the judgments of the lower courts, but petitioner here invokes application of our statute, Shan. Code, Sec. 28'53a4, declaring it unlawful for the owner or keeper of a dog to allow the dog to go upon a highway, subject to exceptions not pertinent here. Violation of this statute was held, in…