Cole v. Thompson

Plaintiff, in Her petition, alleged that she was the owner of fifty-five and one-half acres of land, forty acres of which was meadow, four of creek bed, and four of timber land. That in the year 1905, defendant willfully *687and maliciously permitted about thirty head of cattle to go upon said land and to eat, tramp down, and destroy all the grass growing upon the meadow land, to the damage of plaintiff in the sum of $100; and $100 was asked as exemplary damages. Defendant denied the allegations of the petition, pleaded that he had at his own expense erected a fence between his own and…