Boots v. Thompson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This was an action by a bailor to recover from a bailee cattle placed in the pasture of the latter, a delivery of which was not demanded at the time fixed for their return; and later when the demand was made some of them were not found in the pasture. The jury found in favor of the bailee and the bailor appeals.

It appears that on April 16,1917, Ed Boots placed eighty head of cattle in the custody of F. E. Thompson to be kept and grazed in a pasture containing twelve sections of land, and in which about 1,050 head of cattle were being…