Holmes v. Irwin

One of the causes of action as stated in the petition of defendant in error — who was-plaintiff in the district court —was, that in the year 1883 the cattle and stock of plaintiff in error broke into a house or crib where defendant in error had his corn stored, and ate up and destroyed one hundred bushels of the corn of the value of thirty-five dollars. To this part of the petition plaintiff in error answered that during the year 1883 he rented a stock field of defendant in error for pasture for his cattle. That by the terms of the contract the cattle of plaintiff in error were to run in the…