UNDERWOOD, Justice.
Subliminally it might appear that the defendants are challenging the adage: Good fences make good neighbors. The issue they raise on appeal, however, is whether a provision of the Vermont fence laws, 24 V.S.A. § 3802, exceeds the police power of the state in compelling a landowner who has no livestock to contribute equally in building and maintaining a division fence to keep the abutting landowner's livestock from straying at large.
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