Virginia Appeals, Vol. 25

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Excerpt from Virginia Appeals, Vol. 25: The Earliest Report of All Current Decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals, January, 1922 This is a motion, the object of which is to recover the value of two dogs, alleged to have been wrongfully, unlaw fully, intentionally and deliberately shot and killed. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of the defendant, and the plaintiff assigns error. It is clear that such an action can be maintained, it being well settled at common law that the possession of a dog vests the owner with such a base or qualified property as that he can maintain a civil action for the unlawful conversion, destruction or injury thereof. Commonwealth V. Maclin, 3 Leigh (30 Va.) 810, Davis V. Commonwealth, 17 Gratt. (48 Va.) 618. By statute in Virginia (code 1919, see. 2324) dogs which have been assessed with a license tax which is not delinquent, are personal property, and may be the subject of larceny as well as of malicious or unlawful trespass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.