Posey v. Coleman

This suit was instituted by the appellant against the appellee to recover damages resulting from the depredations of stock on growing crops situated on appellant’s inclosed premises. The petition alleges that the premises were situated in a subdivision of Red River county where hogs, sheep, and goats were prohibited by law from running at large, that they constituted appellant’s homestead, whereon he grew his annual crops, and were “inclosed by a lawful fence under the statute, and were so inclosed at and before the wrongs hereinafter complained about.” After describing by metes and bounds…