Major v. Pulliam

Mrs. Grace Pulliam, a widow, sued Olive T. Major, her neighbor, in trespass quare clausum fregit, for breaking down her fence and turning cattle, at various times, into her cornfield, and for other enormities perpetrated during the continued and repeated trespass upon her close; and on the trial, upon the general issue, recovered a verdict and judgment for three hundred dollars in damages.

It appears from the bill of exceptions, purporting to exhibit all the evidence, that Mrs. Pulliam had a troublesome “old red cow,” which occasionally annoyed her neighbors, and especially the plaintiff in…