By Paul E. Pfeifer, Justice, Ohio Supreme Court
Centerville Today.com
From 2000 to 2008, Roshel Smith worked at her father’s business, CJS Standardbred Stables, helping to care for and manage the horses. In 2007, an incident occurred at CJS that resulted in a lawsuit that eventually came before us – the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Donald Landfair, a licensed livestock dealer for 40 years, boarded two of his horses – Green Acres Patty and Green Acres Annie – at CJS. On March 28, Landfair loaded his horses into a trailer for off-site blacksmithing. He took them to the blacksmith and reloaded them for return by himself, without incident.
Meanwhile, Roshel had stopped by CJS to visit her father. As she was standing by the barn door watching her father exercise another horse, Landfair unloaded Patty from the trailer. As he returned to unload Annie, an Amish wagon with two teams of horses passed by, spooking Annie.
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