David v. Ziegler

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

This is a tort suit involving a collision between a car and a horse. David Sanford and Gayle Sanford, the defendants below, own a pasture. On October 5, 1989, David Sanford was keeping three of his horses in the pasture, which was some distance from the Sanfords’ home. The grass in the pasture was short in October, and each day the Sanfords drove their pickup truck from their home to the pasture to supplement the horses’ feed with both hay and grain. The pasture is enclosed by a relatively new fence that has fenceposts made of steel. The gate is a metal panel gate…