Sentell v. New Orleans & Carrollton R. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding legislators may permit the destruction of dogs for safety and protection of citizens
• “[b]y the common law, as well as by the law of most, if not all, the States, dogs are so far recognized as property”
• “[b]y the common law, as well as by the law of most, if not all, the States, dogs are so far recognized as property that an action will lie for their conversion or injury”
• “It is purely within the discretion of the legislature to say how far dogs shall be recognized as property, and under what restrictions they shall be permitted to roam the streets.”
• “By the common law, as well as by the law of most, if not all, the states, dogs are so far recognized as property that an action will lie for their conversion or 5 injury.”
• “[P]roperty in dogs is of an imperfect or qualified nature, and [ ] they stand, as it were, between animals ferae naturae, in which until killed or subdued, there is no property, and domestic animals, in which the right of property is perfect and complete.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).