Kinder v. Gillespie

Citations

• 63 Ill. 88

Syllabus

<p>Impounding animals—ordinance. Where a plaintiff’s horses escaped from his inclosure against his will, and he immediately went in search of them to put them up, but before he found them they were seized by the police constable of the town where they were found running, who impounded them under the ordinance of the town: Held, that under such circumstances the horses were not running at large in the legal sense of the term, and that the constable had no right to detain them from the owner.</p>