Mattice v. Mattice

This action was brought for damages resulting from plaintiff’s colt being injured by coming in contact with a barb wire fence, which was alleged to have been a nuisance and to have been negligently maintained by the defendant. The court below rendered judgment for the plaintiff. The plaintiff had placed-his colt to pasture on the pasture lot of his brother, a short distance from defendant’s lands. This pasture lot was fenced. Without the plaintiff’s knowledge on the day of the accident, his colt in company with another colt in some way, not clearly shown, escaped from the pasture, crossed a…