Cagle v. Monroe

This case involves appellant’s liability for having set his dogs upon the appellee’s cow, -which had escaped from her pasture and was trespassing upon appellant’s cotton field. There was testimony to the effect that the appellant, discovering this cow and other cattle upon his property, sicked four dogs upon the intruders. One of the dogs was a bulldog estimated by appellee to weigh about eighty pounds. This dog bit the cow so severely that her value as a milch cow was destroyed. The jury awarded compensatory damages in an amount not questioned by appellant.

For reversal appellant contends…