Franklin County v. Middleton

This is an action by appellee, W. P. Middleton, against appellant, Franklin county, for the value of an ox owned by appellee which he claims was killed by appellant in an effort to enforce the Cattle Fever Tick Law (chapter 167, Laws of 1916, as amended by chapter 38 of the Laws of 1917). There was a judgment for appellee for eighty dollars, from which judgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant claimed that appellee had violated the Cattle Fever Tick Law by refusing to dip' his cattle, including the ox in question, and sent out its “rangers” to drive appellee’s cattle to a dipping…