Sanders v. Mount Haggin Livestock Company

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of the third judicial district, Deer Lodge County. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiffs and awarded damages in the sum of $96,140. Defendant moved the trial court for a new trial and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict; both motions were denied by the trial court. Defendant appeals from the judgment.

In early May 1969, defendant Mount Haggin Livestock Company owned approximately 600-850 head of Black Angus cattle which were pastured in a fenced pasture in the Deer Lodge Valley between Galen and Anaconda, Montana in the…