Brown v. Cooper

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellant to recover the value of a horse killed through the alleged negligence of appellee in the construction of a barbed-wire fence around 200 acres of land belonging to the latter. The fence had only been put up a few weeks when the accident occurred, and consisted of posts about twenty feet apart and'three wires (the usual fence), except that on the side of the inclosure where the horse was killed there were but two wires, the bottom one'not having been put on. The proof, however, showed that in this respect the fence was not more…