Bly v. McAllister

This case poses the question of whether negligence is a necessary element in establishing the liability of the owner of livestock for their trespass upon the land of another in a “stock restricted area.” The question arises in consequence of the depredations of a Hereford bull in a herd of registered Aberdeen Angus.

To a court harassed with urgent constitutional problems relating to urban renewal, racial discrimination, financing of toll bridges, due process, and when the right to counsel begins, this is a pastoral interlude. However, there being a substantial backlog of opinions waiting to be…