Lorance v. Hillyer

Ragan, C.

Milo Hillyer in the district court of Gage county sued Oliver P. Loranee for damages which he alleged he had sustained by reason of the latter’s cow trespassing upon his lot, tearing up the grass, shrubbery, and breaking down and destroying certain cherry trees growing thereon. Loranee, in addition to a general denial, pleaded as a defense to such action that his cow was a well-domesticated Jersey milch cow; that on the evening or night before the time when it was alleged she had trespassed on the plaintiffs property he, the defendant, had placed said cow in a good and substantial…