Ohio Supreme Court December 15, 1840 (Dodge v. Gridley)

Lane, C. J.

In 1831, the case of the town of Marietta v. Fearing, 4 Ohio, 431, was decided in this court, in which it was held, that, since towns are public corporations, the provision in the estray act restrains the operation of their ordinances forbidding animals running at large to those owned by the citizens.