47-638. Liability for damages from such disease.

47-638

Chapter 47.--LIVESTOCK AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS
Article 6.--PROTECTION OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS

      47-638.   Liability for damages from such disease.Any person or persons who shall drive, ship, or transport, or cause tobe driven, shipped, or transported, into or through any county in thisstate, any cattle liable to or capable of communicating Texas, splenic orSpanish fever to any domestic cattle of this state, shall be liable to anyperson or persons injured thereby for all damages that they may sustain byreason of the communication of said diseases of Texas, splenic or Spanishfever, to be recovered in a civil action in any court of competentjurisdiction, and the parties so injured shall have a lien for such damageson the cattle communicating the disease of Texas, splenic or Spanish fever.

      History:   L. 1885, ch. 191, § 4; L. 1891, ch. 201, § 3; L. 1901, ch. 101, § 3;March 15; R.S. 1923, 47-638.