People v. Tinsdale
New York Court of General Sessions
10 Abbott’s Prac. Rept. (New) 374 (1868)
- Written by Brianna Pine, JD
Facts
George Tinsdale and Arthur Taggart (defendants) operated a horse-drawn passenger car on the Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad in New York City. On January 2, 1868, the passenger car was being drawn by two horses and was heavily crowded with passengers. The horses repeatedly slipped, and one fell twice while straining to move the overloaded car up the steepest grade in the city. Passengers had to help the horses get the car moving. Witnesses testified that the car was unusually crowded and that the horses were light in weight and strength, were unsuited for the load, and could not have moved the car without assistance. Tinsdale and Taggart were charged with unnecessarily overloading the car, thereby overdriving, tormenting, and torturing the horses in violation of New York’s 1867 animal-cruelty statute. [Editor’s Note: The Rule of Law, Issue, and Holding and Reasoning sections of this brief summarize the judge’s charge to the jury.]
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Hackett, J.)
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