69 Mo. App. 442 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1897
Plaintiff sued before a justice for $75 as damages for the death of his horse, alleged to have been caused on the fourteenth of September, 1895, by
On the trial plaintiff adduced evidence tending to prove the allegations of his statement, and defendant gave evidence tending to establish his defenses that the death of the horse was not caused by negligent driving or beating, but by a stomach disease. The court submitted the issues to .the jury in instructions of its own motion, and one given at defendant’s request.
Finding no reversible error in the judgment, it will be affirmed.