Till v. Bennett

MORGAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Mellette County, upon a jury verdict which awarded respondents $2,650 actual damages and $2,300 punitive damages as a result of appellant’s cattle trespassing upon respondents’ land. Appellant appeals the judgment contending that the court erred in striking his defense of contributory negligence and in allowing the issue of punitive damages to go before the jury. We affirm.

Prior to the spring of 1975, appellant had leased two adjacent tracts of land from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. íhese…