Harrison v. Adamson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Palo Alto District Court. — Hon. George H. Carr, Judge. Action to recover damages resulting to plaintiff by defendant’s herding and pasturing cattle upon plaintiff’s uninclosed land. A demurrer to plaintiff’s petition was overruled. From this decision defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
— I. The first count of plaintiff’s petition, alleging his ownership of a tract of land, avers the following facts as a cause of action: “That the land is and has been unimproved prairie land, chiefly valuable for the crop of natural grass and hay that annually grows thereon; that defendant has been the owner of a large herd of cattle, and, during the spring and summer of 1886, grazed and herded the same on plaintiff’s land, in charge of a herdsman, and used and destroyed the crop of grass and hay that grew thereon, for the year 1886; * * " that said defendant, though often requested by…
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