Court Opinion

ID: 9672876
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:02:09.989345+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:18.865776
License: Public Domain

Conley Byrd, Justice, concurring. I concur in the reversal of the trial court’s order sustaining the demurrer, but disagree with so much of the opinion as suggests that the allegations as to removal of the bull from the ditch states only conclusions. As I read the complaint it alleges that they owned a bull, valuable for breeding purposes, that the defendant left an unprotected ditch into which the bull fell and that the defendants carelessly and negligently removed the bull from the ditch in such manner as to render the bull unfit for breeding purposes. A man should surely be able to remove a bull from a ditch without rendering the bull unfit for breeding purposes. Also common knowledge obtained from “the birds and the bees” should impart some knowledge to the defendant as to what renders a “bull unfit for breeding purposes.” Enough so I would think that such an allegation in a complaint would not be demurrable and without requiring the owner to adopt the vernacular of the cow pasture in a formal complaint.