Gilmore v. Harvey

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a suit for damages caused to growing crops as a result of trespassing and foraging by defendant’s cattle. The plaintiff alleges that he is the owner of certain property in the Parish of West Feli-ciana, and that the defendant owns a tract of land adjoining his property on the south. He alleges further that both properties are zoned under a Parish Stock Ordinance requiring that cattle be kept under fence at all times, and that despite this fact, on or about the first day of September, 1948, the defendant permitted a number of his cattle» to enter upon plaintiff’s…