Reese v. Baum
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, ¡Nellis L. Baum, from a judgment of the County Court of Jefferson county, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson, on the 9th day of February, 1903, affirming, upon appeal, a judgment of the City Court of the city of Watertown in favor of the plaintiff, entered on the 4th day of March, 1902.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The judgment of the County Court and City Court should be reversed, with costs in this court and the County and City courts.
The action is to recover damages for injuries to a horse, caused by a barbed wire division fence between the lands of the parties, maintained by the defendant.
Chapter 524 of the Laws of 1896 added section 109 to the Town Law (Laws of 1890, chap. 569), providing for the use of barbed wire in building division fences.
This statute became a law May 11, 1896, and provided in brief that barbed wire could be used in constructing division fences, with the written…
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