Crawford v. Williams
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Johnson District Cowi't. The plaintiff alleges that on the 9th day of April, 1875, he was a breeder of reputed fine thoroughbred stock of the kind known as short-horns, and that, on said day, an ill-bred, unregistered and unpedigreed bull, belonging to defendant, unlawfully at large in the highway, served and got with calf plaintiff’s two year old heifer, called “Royal Butterfly, ” which is reputed to be registered in American Herd Book, vol. 13, p. 926, to the…
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Appeal from Johnson District Cowi't. The plaintiff alleges that on the 9th day of April, 1875, he was a breeder of reputed fine thoroughbred stock of the kind known as short-horns, and that, on said day, an ill-bred, unregistered and unpedigreed bull, belonging to defendant, unlawfully at large in the highway, served and got with calf plaintiff’s two year old heifer, called “Royal Butterfly, ” which is reputed to be registered in American Herd Book, vol. 13, p. 926, to the damage of plaintiff in the sum of five hundred dollars. The defendant, for answer, denies all the allegations of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
1. damages: i»g: evidence, I. There was no error in excluding the Herd Hook. Without some proof that its correctness was recog- • nized by cattle breeders, and that -the plaintiff’s heifer was the identical Boyal Butterfly entered in this book, the book was clearly inadmissible.
2._; meas. meot. II. The court erred in the rule of damages announced. Bulls are prohibited from running at large, and the owner is liable for all damages they occasion. Code, §§ 1447, 1450. This damage cannot properly be restricted to the merely physical injuries which they occasion. The importance to the State of…
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