§ 9333 Cattle Sheep Liability Rules

• •If there's a fight in court about cows or sheep, everyone who owns, controls, or has them can be in trouble.
• •All those people can be sued together or one by one for the same problem.
• •It doesn’t matter if you just own the animal or just take care of it—you can still be responsible.

A farmer and his neighbor share a barn for their sheep. One day, the sheep break out and ruin a neighbor’s garden.

Both the farmer and his neighbor can be sued for the damage because they both had control over the sheep.