McGill v. Compton

This was an action, brought by appellee, to recover the value of a horse claimed to have fallen into and been drowned in a “ slough well,” located on the premises of appellant.

It is averred in the declaration that plaintiff and defendant were occupying adjoining lands; that such lands were under cultivation; each occupying a separate parcel, except in this, that there was no division fence separating the lands, but it was mutually understood and consented to by each, that their respective stock might pasture on the land of the other, in the fall of the year; that such had been the…