Beever v. Smith

— This is a suit in replevin involving the possession of certain hogs. The defendant concedes plaintiff’s ownership of the hogs and justifies his detention of same on the ground that such hogs *87were running at large and trespassing contrary to the law restraining domestic animals from running at large claimed by defendant to have been legally adopted and then in force in Sargent Township, Texas County, where such hogs were taken up by defendant. Both parties agree that the only point involved is whether the stock law, as it is called, was at such time in force in such township; and this poiiit…