Nelson v. Tanner

WOLFE, Justice.

Appeal by the plaintiff from a verdict and judgment of no cause of action in a suit by plaintiff against defendant for trespass to plaintiff’s land by pigs owned by defendant. The parties are referred to as they appeared in the court below. The facts, insofar as material here, are as follows:

Plaintiff owned, and had owned for many years prior to the commencement of this action, a tract of farm land near Payson, Utah. Defendant had occupied an adjacent tract of land during the same period of time. During the years from 1948 to 1946, inclusive, defendant had kept a few pigs,…