Keizewetter v. State

DAYIDSOH, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for pulling down the fence of one J. A. Mevis, without his consent, etc. The father of Mevis, many years prior to this prosecution, when he sold the land now owned by appellant, reserved a strip of land between his own and the deeded land as a passway or lane over which the cattle could travel to a creek near by for watering purposes. Mevis, the alleged owner, to prevent appellant’s cattle from watering at said creek, erected a fence across this outlet by joining it to appellant’s fence. Appellant moved his fence, thus again opening the lane. Mevis…