Laporte v. Van Buskirk

The plaintiff owned five horses. During the first part of Hay, 1926, they got out of his pasture and strayed to the defendant’s premises where they damaged his hay and grain. The defendant took them up as estrays and advertised them pursuant to the provisions of the estray statute, § 2667, Comp-. Laws 1913, et seq. The plaintiff learning that the defendant and the horses went to the defendant’s place and demanded them. The defendant told him he had taken them doing damage and asked $50 to pay the damage and cost of keeping the horses and advertising them. The plaintiff said that this was too…