47-639. Joint and several liability.
47-639
47-639. Joint and several liability.Whenever two or more persons shall in violation of this act, at the sametime or at different times during the same year, drive or cause to bedriven upon the same highway, range, common or pasture within this stateany cattle capable of communicating or liable to impart Texas, splenic orSpanish fever, they shall be jointly and severally liable for all damagesthat may arise from the communication of such disease at any timethereafter during the same year to any native, domestic or acclimatedcattle that shall have been upon the same highway, range, common or pastureso previously traveled over by such first-mentioned cattle.
History: L. 1885, ch. 191, § 6; March 12; R.S. 1923, 47-639.