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Open in new window Liability for Cattle Losses Lease v Agistment

Joe Hawbaker ( 2008 )

Summary

A landowner’s potential liability for dead and underweight cattle depends in the first instance whether his agreement with the owner of the livestock was a real property lease or a contract of agistment. If it’s a lease, then the landowner likely is not liable for the cattle owner’s losses. However, if it’s a contract of agistment, then the relationship between the parties is a bailment, with the landowner obligated to tend to the cattle as an ordinarily prudent man would take care of his own animals under like circumstances.


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Publisher Legal Aid of Nebraska Farm & Ranch Project
Publication Date 2008
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Material Type Written Material

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