Illinois Supreme Court June 15, 1867 (Hite v. Blandford)

Mr. Chief Justice Breese

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This was an action on the case for a tort by plaintiff in error in bringing horses diseased with glanders, known to be a disease highly infectious, to the farm of defendant in error, and placing them, in a lot contiguous to which, and under the same exterior fence, were the horses and other stock of the defendant, which became infected