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Bulls.

A woman was tossed by a bull in Pittsburgh. She had a baby in her arms, and, as she was thrown from a bridge to hard surface ten feet below, both she and the child were seriously injured. The owner of the bull was sued by the woman’s husband for damages, but there was no proof that there had been any pecuniary loss, and the jury gave a verdict for the defendant. Jane Grey Swisshelm thus expresses her indignation: “If this woman, after her toss, had been sent to a hospital, so that her husband had been deprived of her company, or if she had been rendered unable to perform her usual service, even for a day, her owner might have recovered damages; but as his property was not materially injured, for his use, there could be no damages.’

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