PORIER v. SPIVEY

36927.

97 Ga. App. 209 (1958)

102 S.E.2d 706

PORIER et al. v. SPIVEY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied February 21, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Cork, J. Laddie Boatright, for plaintiffs in error.

H. B. Edwards, Sr., H. B. Edwards, Jr., W. J. Gibbons, contra.


FELTON, Chief Judge.

1. The law does not put an absolute duty on an owner to keep his livestock from running at large in a stock-law county. The only duty placed upon such owner is to exercise ordinary care to keep livestock from straying or running at large beyond the limits of the owner's property. "At common law, if, by the negligent keeping of the owner of hogs, they strayed upon the land of another and injured his...

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