Clarendon Land Investment Agency Company v. McClelland Bros.

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court reversed the lower courts and remanded the case, holding that an owner of domestic animals who permits them to run at large is not liable for damages caused by those animals when they enter a neighbor's fenced pasture through an imperfect fence, absent evidence of viciousness or willful trespass. The court also held that statutes governing fence requirements apply only to cultivated lands, not to pasture lands.