Wolf v. Nicholson

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant to recover the possession of fourteen cattle.

The appellee, being the owner of the animals, placed them in an enclosed pasture on his farm in the morning. They escaped and wandered about one mile away, to the vicinity of the residence of the appellant, who was road supervisor of the district. During the same forenoon the appellant saw the animals upon the highway, and recognizing them as the property of his neighbor, took them up, impounded them upon his own farm, and notified the appellee in writing of the taking up and impounding, and…