Thombley v. Hightower

Mrs. E. G. Thombley and G. C. Ellis filed against O. H. Hightower their joint action for damages on account of alleged trespass committed by certain cattle belonging to the defendant. It is alleged in the petition that Mrs. E. G. Thombley owned certain described land lying in Lowndes County, and wholly within the city limits of Valdosta, the county-site of said county; that in said county “the so-called ‘stock law’ is not of force, but in this respect the county is termed a ‘fence-law’ county;” that the land described is uninclosed; that at the time the cattle trespassed on the land and…