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LAW— EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER. 



shall have been lawfully on adjoining lands, 

 and shall have escaped therefrom in con- 

 sequence of the neglect of the person 

 who has suffered the damage, to main- 

 tain his part of the divison fence. 



Wisconsin. — The laws of Wisconsin 

 permit towns to make regulations con- 

 cerning the running of animals at large. 

 The owner or occupant of lands may dis- 

 train all beasts doing damage within his 

 inclosure, and when any distress shall be 

 made the person distraining is required 

 to keep such beast in some place or other 

 than in the public pound until his dam- 

 ages are appraised; and within twenty- 

 four hours he shall apply to a justice of 

 the peace, who shall appoint three dis- 

 interested free-holders to appraise the 

 damages sustained. If within twenty- 

 four hours after the appraisement the 

 damages are not paid, the animals may 

 b>e placed in the public pound, to be 

 there maintained until the amount of dam- 

 ages and costs is recovered by due pro- 

 cess of law. If the owner of any sheep 

 infected with contagious disease permits 

 any of them to go at large out of his own 

 inclosure at and season of the year, he 

 shall forfeit the sum of $5 for each and 

 every such sheep, to the person who may 

 enter complaint, for each time they are 

 so found running at large. If the owner 

 neglect to restrain such sheep, any per- 

 son is authorized to take them up and 

 put them in some safe place other than 

 the public pound. Rams are not per- 

 mitted to go at large between July 15 and 

 December 1, and the owner forfeits $10 

 to the person taking up the animal for 

 ■ each time so found abroad. 



Minnesota. — The electors of each town 

 in the State of Minnesota have power 

 .at their annual meetings to determine the 

 number of pound masters, and the loca- 

 tion of pounds, and regulations for im- 

 pounding animals, and to fix the time 

 and manner in which cattle, mules, asses, 

 and sheep may be permitted to go at 

 large, provided that no cattle, horses, 

 mules, nor asses be allowed to go at 

 large between the 15th of October and 

 the 1 st of April. The owner or occupant 

 of lands may distrain all beasts doing 

 damage upon his lands during the night- 

 time, from 8 o'clock in the evening until 

 :sunrise ; and when any distress is made 

 the distrainer shall keep such beasts in 



some secure place other than the public 

 pound, until his damages are appraised, 

 unless the same is made on Sunday, in 

 which case, before the next Tuesday 

 morning thereafter he shall apply to a 

 justice of the peace of the town, who 

 shall appoint three disinterested persons 

 to appraise damages. No damage can 

 be recovered by the owner of any lands 

 for damage committed by any beasts dur- 

 ing the daytime, until it is first proved 

 that the lands were inclosed by a lawful 

 fence. Distress may be made at any 

 time before the beasts doing damage 

 escape from the lands, and without re- 

 gard to the sufficiency of fences. The 

 owner of any horse or other animal, hav- 

 ing the disease known as the glanders, 

 who knowingly permits such animal to 

 run at large, or be driven upon any of 

 the highways of the State, or any hotel 

 keeper, or keeper of any public barn, who 

 permits any animal having such disease 

 to be stabled, such person shall be deem- 

 ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 

 conviction before any justice of the peace, 

 shall be punished by a fine of not more 

 than $100 nor less than $25. 



Iowa. — In Iowa no stallion, jack, bull, 

 boar, or buck is permitted to run at large. 

 Persons aggrieved are allowed to distrain 

 any such animals, and compel the owner 

 to pay damages. If the animal is not re- 

 deemed within seven days, seven days' 

 notice of its sale at public auction must 

 be given, the proceeds to apply on dam- 

 ages after deducting costs. If any do- 

 mestic animal, lawfully on adjoining land, 

 escapes therefrom in consequence of the 

 neglect of the person suffering damage to 

 maintain his part of the division fence, 

 the owner of the animal is not liable for 

 any damages. If beasts are not lawfully 

 upon the adjoining land, and came upon 

 it, or of they escaped therefrom into the 

 injured inclosure, in consequence of the 

 neglect of the adjoining owner to main- 

 tain a partition fence or any part of one, 

 which it was his duty to maintain, then 

 the owner of the adjoining land shall be 

 liable as well as the owner of beasts. 

 Fence-viewers appraise all damages. An 

 act of April 8, 1868, forbids anyone to 

 bring into the State, or to have in posses- 

 sion, any Texas, Cherokee, or Indian 

 cattle. Transportation on railroads through 

 the State is not forbidden, nor the 



