Campbell Hengst v. Douthit

This is an action instituted by appellee against appellants to recover the value of a mule, the loss of which is. alleged to have been caused by an unlawful act of appellants in leaving uncovered and unprotected a trench along an alley in the city of DeQueen.

The facts are that appellants were contractors with an improvement district, constructing a system of sewers in the city of DeQueen, and that they dug a trench about five feet deep and two feet wide along an alley for the purpose of laying sewer pipe, that they left the trench open over night, and the mule fell into it and died. There was…