Pyramid Land & Stock Co. v. Pierce
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Washoe County. Action by the Pyramid Land and Stock Company, a corporation, against George Pierce, and others. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. The act of 1893 is general; the act of 1903 is special, and relates to sheep only.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Washoe County. Action by the Pyramid Land and Stock Company, a corporation, against George Pierce, and others. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. The act of 1893 is general; the act of 1903 is special, and relates to sheep only. The latter act does not allow attorney’s fees, but gives penal damage for repeated trespass and further forbids sheep from being herded or grazed within one mile of a home or ranch house. In so far as the act of 1893…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Talbot, C. J.:
In the complaint it is alleged that plaintiff is the owner of certain subdivisions of land aggregating four hundred and forty acres and consisting in part of what is commonly known as the Cottonwood Ranch in Washoe County, and also the owner of eighty acres at another place; that on or about the 24th day of February, 1906, and thereafter to the time of the making of the complaint, which was verified on March 7, 1906, the defendants wrongfully and unlawfully caused to be herded and grazed about five thousand head of sheep upon this land without the consent of the…
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