Wilkerson v. White

W. W. White and J. I. Wilkerson are farmers, each owning forty acres of land adjoining and separated by a partnership fence. Wilkerson had a small com field in a corner next to the division fence into which hogs entered and destroyed a quantity of corn. He brought suit against White alleging that the hogs causing the damag-e to his corn belonged to White and that they had gained entrance through the cross-fence which White had negligently failed to maintain so as to prevent hogs from breaking through.

It appears from the evidence that on or about the tenth of October, White and Wilkerson had a…