Partition fences may be erected and repaired at the expense, jointly, of the occupants or owners; or if a person makes a fence a partition fence, by joining to it or using it as such, that person shall pay to the person erecting it that person's proportion of the expense.
Code 1858, § 1687; Acts 1875, ch. 64, § 1; Shan., § 2999; Code 1932, § 5214; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 44-1713, 44-9-202.
Compiler's Notes. Former part 2, §§44-8-201 —44-8-203, concerning grazing, was transferred to part 5 of this chapter in 1987.
Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 13 Tenn. Juris., Fences, § 2.