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.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 44 - Animals and Animal Husbandry
Chapter 8 - Fences and Confinement
§ 44-8-101. Land in Cultivation Sufficiently Fenced
§ 44-8-102. Various Materials Constituting Sufficient Fencing — Rules
§ 44-8-103. Horses, Cattle, and Mules Sufficiently Fenced
§ 44-8-104. Paling and Wire Fence Lawful
§ 44-8-105. Three-Wire, Plank, or Slat Fence a Lawful Fence
§ 44-8-107. Defense of Insufficiency of Fence
§ 44-8-109. Notoriously Mischievous Stock to Be Confined
§ 44-8-110. Liability of Owners of Notoriously Mischievous Stock
§ 44-8-112. Pulling and Leaving Down Fence, or Opening and Leaving Open Gate, a Misdemeanor