Injury to Animals

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If any person, whose fence is adjudged insufficient, maims, wounds, or kills any such animal, or causes or procures it to be done, that person shall make full satisfaction to the person injured for all damages sustained, to be recovered before any tribunal having cognizance thereof.

Code 1858, § 1686 (deriv. Acts 1807, ch. 8, § 3); Shan., § 2987; Code 1932, § 5209; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 44-1708, 44-9-108.

Compiler's Notes. Former part 1, §§44-8-101 —44-8-112, concerning running at large, was transferred to part 4 of this chapter in 1987.

Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 2 Tenn. Juris., Animals, §§ 30, 31; 13 Tenn. Juris., Game and Game Laws, § 3.


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