Bunn v. Shaw

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Oliphant, J.

An action was instituted in the Morris County District Court for the value of plaintiff’s fox hound which had been shot and killed by defendant’s son, on her orders, while the dog was on her property. The case was tried by the court without a jury and resulted in a judgment being rendered in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $500.

That judgment of the District Court was entered on August 4, 1948, and an appeal taken to the former Supreme Court on August 24, 1948, before the effective date of the present Constitution. An appeal was…