People ex rel. Barra v. City of Peoria

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• holding the defense of necessity applicable to defendant who unlawfully killed a deer as it ate his crops
• “If in this case it was reasonably necessary for the defendant to kill the deer in question in order to prevent substantial injury to his property, such fact, we have no doubt, would afford justification for the killing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).