Little v. Swafford

The supreme court in Blizzard v. Walker, 32 Ind. 437, expressly decided that the statutory regulations concerning enclosures, trespassing animals, and partition fences were “intended to supersede the rule of the common law on this subject.”

Such is also the implication of other cases decided by both the Supreme and Appellate courts. James v. Fowler, 90 Ind. 563; Anderson v. Worley, 104 Ind. 165; Haffner v. Barnard, 123 Ind. 429; Forsyth v. Walch, 4 Ind. App. 182.

It is true, as said by appellant’s learned counsel, that *8in these cases the courts have not discussed nor referred specially to the…