Duffees v. Judd
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Poweshiek Circuit Court. On the 5th clay of December, 1874, there was filed in the office of the township clerk of Pleasant township, Poweshiek county, by the township trustees, their assessments of the damages sustained by the plaintiff by the trespassing of defendant’s cattle, as follows: “We, the undersigned, trustees of Pleasant township, in Poweshiek county, State of Iowa, having been called on this day by Alexander Duffees to appraise the damage done to him…
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Appeal from Poweshiek Circuit Court. On the 5th clay of December, 1874, there was filed in the office of the township clerk of Pleasant township, Poweshiek county, by the township trustees, their assessments of the damages sustained by the plaintiff by the trespassing of defendant’s cattle, as follows: “We, the undersigned, trustees of Pleasant township, in Poweshiek county, State of Iowa, having been called on this day by Alexander Duffees to appraise the damage done to him by about one hundred and fifteen head of cattle which he had distrained for damages done to him, do hereby certify that…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
1. stock: dam-I. The bill of exceptions shows the following facts: “The plaintiff offered testimony tending to show that under chapter 70 of the Acts of the Fifteenth General Assembly, and chapter 3, of title 11, of the Code of 1873, the question of restraining stock from running at large between sunset and sunrise had been adopted in Poweshiek county by a vote of the electors of said county, at the general election of 1871, and for that purpose offered in evidence the journal of the board of supervisors of Poweshiek county, one of the record books of the county, to the introduction of which…
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