“In a plea of the case for that the said plaintiff, on the 14th day of September, 1855, was possessed of a valuable horse, of the value of $125.00, which was peaceably and of right depasturing in his own close, and the defendant was possessed of another horse, vicious and unruly, which was running at large where of right it ought not to be, and being so unlawfully at large, broke into the plaintiff’s close, at the time aforesaid, and viciously and wantonly kicked, reared upon, and injured the plaintiff’s horse, so that his death was caused thereby, which vicious habits and propensities were well known to the defendant at the time aforesaid. To the damage, &c.”
[276]. The arguments are omitted.
[277]. Angus v. Radin, 2 South. (N. J.) 815 Accord. The same result has often been reached in an action of trespass quare clausum in which the injury by the trespassing animal is set up in aggravation. Lee v. Riley, 17 C. B. N. S. 722; Theyer v. Purnell, [1918] 2 K. B. 333; Van Leuven v. Lyke, 1 N. Y. 515; Dolph v. Ferris, 7 Watts & Sergt. 367; Chunot v. Larson, 43 Wis. 536.
But see McDonald v. Jodrey, 8 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 142 (cat went on plaintiff’s premises and killed canary).
[278]. Statement and arguments omitted.
[279]. 17 C. B. N. S. 260.
[280]. 13 C. B. N. S. 430.
[281]. 18 C. B. N. S. 732.
[282]. L. R. 10 C. P. 10.
[283]. McClain v. Lewiston Driving Ass’n, 17 Idaho, 63; Green v. Doyle, 21 Ill. App. 205; Chunot v. Larson, 43 Wis. 536 Accord.