Bryson v. Carroll

According to the defendant’s testimony, the plaintiff had in his herd of cows a so-called fence-breaker. This cow (a “big Holstein”) would “get her head through the fence and push the wires up” and then “get her front feet through, and when she did she would come through regardless of the barbed wire.” The damage of which the plaintiff complains was caused by his herd after they had escaped through the breaches in the fence which the Holstein had made. After repairing these breaches on numerous occasions, the defendant notified the plaintiff that he “could not keep the fence repaired” any…