Morse v. Glover
Morse v. Glover.
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Wallace, J.
The plaintiff’s cattle, including the ox in question, came on the defendant’s land in consequence of the defendant’s neglect to keep in repair his portion of the division fence, and without any fault of the plaintiff. When the defendant found them under those circumstances, it was his duty *120 to drive them back into the plaintiff’s pasture. Instead, he drove the cattle into his barnyard and kept them for about six hours, and then attempted without assistance to drive them to the plaintiff’s house; and in following some of the cattle which escaped into a wood, he abandoned the ox in the highway where for some distance it ran parallel with a railroad with no intervening barrier, and the ox strayed upon the railroad track and was killed. None of these acts were necessary to the performance of the defendant’s duty of returning the ox to the plaintiff’s pasture. The defendant, in all he did after he drove the cattle out of his own enclosure, was a wrongdoer. The death of the ox is legally attributable to. the wrongful acts of the defendant.
Carruthers v. Hollis, 8 Ad. & El, 113;
Morse v. Railroad, 66 N. H. 148.
It having been determined that the defendant is liable in some form of action, it is not a question of any particular importance whether he is liable in case or trespass. If upon examination it were found that case could not be maintained, the plaintiff would be allowed to amend by filing a count in trespass.
Peaslee v. Dudley, 63 N. H. 220:
Gage v. Gage, 66 N. H. 282, 296. "When such an amendment is made, he will be entitled to judgment.
Case discharged.
All concurred.
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