, 1881-03-05
What ID the Legal Fsaos.

| A. the legiAhtors Of Indiana are nov
:Usfyins their brains q to What Law OF
laws should bc SHSssa |. regards fencing
| railroads L that State, TIC tsircsd re.
| porter of the SrArrsNiS has taken pains to
gather up information as to the ..:ws on
this point in sister states In Msssachu-
sets the legal fence is four feet high. A
"fai6e;en. barrier only is demanded,
whether tile oilfvslenss be furnished BY
streams, bitches, live gtoxths or con.
structions in wood, stone or othef tiisse:
rialA The Vermont and Connecticut le-
gal fence is 1--WE and half feet high. with
provisions essentially As above. In Maine
and New Hampshire the legal fence is
four feet high i; Rhode Island, stone or
wood fences must be four feet high
hedges and bitches are elabora.ely de-
scribed
New York-The town meetings pre-
scribe Whist shall be deemed legal fence
in each town. Assessors and commis-
sioners Of highways perform the duties Of
fence viewers; four and half feet is the
usual height prescribed
Pennsylvania-Towns and counties Sc
cure special legislation for fencing lail-
way lines and to prevent the running of
stock at large.
New Jersey-Fences are co be four
feet two inches high, of wood, brick or
or stone, End four and half feet if Of
other materials.
Delaware Fonr feet with ditch with
in two feet, is lawful fence. Wood or
stone fences, or hedge, four and half
feet high.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas,
Tennessee-Legal fences FIVE feet high
West Virginia-Legal fences four and
ndu icct niph
South Carolina-Fenoes must he SIX
feet high, Of wood or hedge, or bitches
equivalent as barriers
Missouri-Hedge FIVE feet, fence four
and half feet.
Kentucky-All sound or strong fences
five feet high. so close that stock cannot
creep through, is the definition Of the le-
gal fence.
Ohio-"A fence of whatever material,
constructed in all respects such as good
husbandmen ought to keep" Statute of
1865.
Illinois Fences four and half high |
of whatever material the fence viewers |
shall deem sufficient"
Michigan-"Fences four and u half feet |
high, of rails, timber, boards, stone or
other things deemed equivalent thereto.
in the judgment of the fence viewers"
WHcon.in-''Fences four and a half
feet high," &c. BY act of 1873, barbed
wire fence is defined as legal fence.
SllnnSSOto- I tuCtS IOuT anu q iissl
feet HIGH" &C.. Barb fence defined by
the act of 1877.
Iowa" Four and half feet high, or
Gfty-fcur inches Barbed eire fence pre-
scribed legal fence in 1876.
Texas" Five feet high Rarbed
wire defined as legal fence.
Kansas-Wyrm fences four and half
feet; turf, four feet with difches, wire
fences four feet apart.
Nebraska-The legal fence is described
as "such fence as good husbandmen
generally keep"
California-The legal fence is described
with great particularly. Wire, post and
rail, brush, picket ditch, pole and hedge
wire fences not les, than three separate
strands, the first eighteen inches form the
ground, the other two one foot apart.
Colorado, Montana, Arizona, and Utah
-four and half feet high.
New Mexico Idaho and Washington
four feet high
In Washington Ter, barbed wire fence
mus: carry top rail of wood
Indiana Any structure in the nature
of fence such as good husbandmen gen.
e7ally keep.