Harper v. Lockhart

Robert Harper was the owner of thirty-eight jacks and jennies, which he placed with the defendant in error, Lock-hart, to be cared for during the winter of 1893. The stock *431were to be kept until the ensuing June, pastured and fed at a certain price. The sum to be paid is the only question in dispute. The ownership of the stock is conceded ; that they were cared for from the time the3r were received by Lockhart until June is admitted, and the payments which the owner made on the bill thus contracted are undisputed. At the expiration of the time for which the stock was placed with Lockhart,…