WILSON v. SCHERMERHORN

No. 5502.

245 P.2d 845 (1952)

56 N.M. 512

WILSON v. SCHERMERHORN OIL CO.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

June 24, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal & Girand, Hobbs, for appellant.

L. George Schubert, Hobbs, for appellee.


McGHEE, Justice.

Plaintiff Wilson recovered judgment for $300 against the defendant oil company as damages for the death of a bull caused by its drinking oil which, the trial court found, had escaped from a wooden tank belonging to the defendant, and which was located in the pasture where the bull grazed.

The bull was missed about February 10, 1951, and its body was found by the plaintiff about March 1 following. According to the witnesses it had been dead...

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