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61 Ill. 376

Akers v. George

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1871

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1871-09-15

William W. Heaton, Judge, presiding. This was an action of replevin, brought by Akers against George, for the alleged wrongful taking and detention, by the defendant, of ninety head of cattle belonging to the plaintiff.

Decided 1871-09-15

Per Curiam :

¶1There was error in sustaining the demurrer to the amended additional replication. It shows that plaintiff’s cattle were in Demerit’s field with the consent of the latter, and they passed thence upon the premises of the defendant through a breach in the partition fence, made by the cattle of the defendant himself. The breach thus made, it was his duty to repair. Under such circumstances the defendant had no more right to take up and hold plaintiff’s cattle under the act of 1867, entitled “Domestic Animals,” than he would have had if the breach in the fence had been made by the defendant himself, instead of by his cattle.

¶2The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

¶3Judgment reversed.

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