Fienup v. Gordon
Fienup v. Gordon
Opinion of the Court
The only question presented upon this appeal is the sufficiency of -the evidence to. sustain respondent’s counterclaim.. Appellant assigns as error the refusal of the court to. direct a verdict denying the 'counterclaim and the insufficiency of the
The judgment and order appealed from, are affirmed. '
Dissenting Opinion
(dissenting). 'Defendant’s' counterclaim was based upon the loss of two he'ad! of cattle, claimed to have been lost because iolf plaintiff’s, failure to repair a certain pasture fence, but there ¡is no evidence 'whatever to show that such cattle were lost through such cause. The evidence shows that the cattle ¡were in the habit of breaking -through ¡the fence where it was in repair, and are -fully as likely to have been lost through this cause, or -because they were stolen -or driven off, as because the fence was out olf repair.
The judgment on the counterclaim ought to' he reversed.
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