Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. McFadden

How courts have described this case

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• where writ directed sheriff “to attach and safely keep” cattle, liability attached for seizure of wrong person’s cattle and “failure properly to care for them” as required
• where writ directed sheriff “to attach and safely keep” cattle, liability attached for seizure of wrong person’s cattle and “failure properly to care for them” as required
• “[I]t was the duty of the sheriff to feed and properly care for the cattle [under the writ because] . . . public policy would not permit him to contract against liability for his personal negligence in caring for and feeding the cattle while in his actual possession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gabriel Garibay v. Hon. johnson/fox
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2025-03-13· cited 6×
• Gabriel Garibay v. Hon. Kellie Johnson William Fox, Az Constable Ethics
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-02-14
• Gabriel Garibay v. Hon. Kellie Johnson William Fox, Az Constable Ethics
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-03-28

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jenney v. Delesdernier
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1841-07-15· cited 12×
• Stevens v. Wolf
  Texas Supreme Court· 1890-05-06· cited 10×
• Smokey v. Peters-Calhoun Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1889-04-15· cited 5×