Opinion ID: 1789526
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Heading: The only charge of negligence made against defendant and submitted to the jury was failing to restrain his cattle from running at large.

Text: Section 188.2, Code of Iowa, I.C.A. provides: All animals shall be restrained by the owners thereof from running at large. The jury was instructed that failure to comply with the statute would constitute prima facie evidence of negligence rebuttable by evidence of reasonable and ordinary care and under the circumstances. The instructions were proper. In Ritchie v. Schaefer, 254 Iowa 1107, 120 N.W.2d 444 we considered this problem and reviewed the authorities. In the case before us defendant's cattle were at large. Defendant's evidence as to his care of and attention to his fences was received. The jury verdict for plaintiff necessarily included a finding of negligence incident to defendant's fences. Further review by us of the question of defendant's negligence is unnecessary.