Moore v. White

The parties to this suit were occupants of adjoining lands— ■their respective fields being separated by a fence. A considerable number of the defendant’s domestic animals broke through this fence and into the plaintiff’s adjoining field and injured his cropsH This suit is brought to recover the consequent damages. The only questions for consideration relate to the legal sufficiency , of the fence, and the right of the plaintiff to the enjoyment of its benefits.

The case shows that the fence ivas constructed some eighteen years since by the then proprietor of the farm now occupied by the…