Leaders v. Dreher

RAWLINGS, Justice.

In negligence action for damages sustained when defendant’s trespassing sow struck and injured plaintiff, trial to jury resulted in a verdict of $13,350 for plaintiff. Upon denial of defendant’s motion for a new trial he appeals. We affirm.

Briefly stated the evidence discloses these two parties live on adjoining farms, having been neighbors since 1946.

Among other farming operations defendant raises Wessex Saddleback hogs. One of these animals, a 450 to 475 pound sow, repeatedly escaped from its fenced enclosure and went onto plaintiff’s property. Plain tiff’s witnesses…