Daniel v. Larsen

Plaintiff sued in replevin to recover cattle impounded on claim of damages to crops, under a local stock law, chapter 585, Private Acts of 1925. He insists that the claim cannot be enforced because the defendant’s premises alleged to have been invaded by the stock are situated within the area excluded from the operation of the law. The defendant insists that a proviso excluding a portion of the county is void and should be elided, and with that done the Act extends to and is effective throughout the county.

It was said in Petit v. White County, 142 Tenn., 660, that a part of a county, to the…