Runyan v. . Patterson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried on appeal from a justice’s judgment at January Special Term, 1881, of Cleaveland Superior Court, before Eure, J. Plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The defendant’s cow, whose vicious propensity to break through the'enclosing barriers and feed upon the growing crops of others, was known to the defendant by repeated acts brought to his notice, made such an irruption into the plaintiff’s cultivated field and committed the damages for which redress is sought in this aetion.
It was in proof that the plaintiff’s fence, varying from a few inches over three feet to a few inches over four feet in height, was insufficient under the requirements of the statute for the protection of the crops it was made to surround, and that the entry of the cow was…
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