Pippin v. Clarke County

Citations

• 124 Miss. 728
• 87 So. 283

Syllabus

<p>1. Animals. Owner dipping cattle in inspector’s absence not entitled under statute to resulting damages.</p> <p>Where a county was operating under the laws for tick eradication and fixed 'particular days for owners of cattle to dip them in vats constructed by the county, at which an inspector in the employment of the county was present to supervise the dipping, and a cattle owner failed to carry his cattle on said day, but at the direction of the inspector carried them to the vat on the following Monday and dipped them himself, the inspector not being present, he cannot recover for damage or injury to cattle resulting from the dipping under his own supervision, under chapter 38, Laws, Extra Session of Mississippi of 1917.</p> <p>2. Aximaxs. Statute net intended to allow damages for owner’s negligence in dipping cattle.</p> <p>The intention of the Legislature in enacting chapter 38, Laws of Extra Session of 1917, is to allow owners of cattle damaged by the negligence of the agents of the county damages for such negligence, and it is not intended to allow owners of cattle damage for their own negligence. To obtain damages under this act the claimant must bring his case within the terms of the act.</p>