Allen v. Walden’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “"In the case at bar, the residents of that portion of Cherokee county in which the parties to this action reside, prior to the 4th day of February, 1908, presented a petition, containing a majority of the electors within the townships therein named, to the board of county commissioners of that county, praying that the domestic animals in said townships be permitted to run at large. On February 4, 1908, the board of county commissioners acted upon said' petition and ordered that hogs should be kept in inclosures after March 1, 1908, and that all other stock, except jacks and stallions, should be allowed to run at large. The act of the first state Legislature, authorizing the county commissioners of certain counties to exempt their county or districts therein from the operation of the herd law, did not become effective until May 21, 1908, and at the time the board of county commissioners made the foregoing order there was no statute authorizing them to do so. A second order was made by the board of county commissioners on the 9th day of April, 1909, whereby all stock, except jacks and stallions, were permitted to run at large in the townships embraced in the former order. This order of the commissioners was made subsequent to the time the act of the state Legislature became effective, but it was made without any petition having been filed therefor. It purports to have been made upon the petition formerly filed, upon which the order of February 4, 1908, was made; but that petiti”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jeremiah, County Com'rs v. Higgins