Jones v. . Witherspoon

The plaintiff declared for that the defendant so carelessly and negligently kept his horses, mules, and other cattle that they escaped from his land, went thence upon the plaintiff's land, then in cultivation, and there injured and destroyed a large quantity of plaintiff's corn and peas, then in his field maturing.

The plaintiff offered evidence to show, and did show, that he (556) was the owner of a plantation on one side of the Yadkin River, and that the defendant was the owner of another plantation on the opposite side of the same river, it being the dividing boundary between the respective…