Blanchard

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs and against the defendant in an action for claim and delivery of certain livestock claimed by the defendant and appellant to have been lawfully impounded by him under the act concerning estrays. Upon the trial of the case the court found that the plaintiffs were at all times the owners of the stock in question, and further found that on the sixth day of October, 1916, the animals in question were taken into possession by the defendant as estrays, and that said animals were at the said time of their taking estrays under the terms and meaning of the act of the legislature entitled “An act relating to estrays, etc., ’ ’ approved March 23, 1901, and, with its several amendments, in force at the time of the impounding of said animals by the defendant. The court further found that the defendant had incurred expenses and costs by reason of the taking up of such stock amounting in all to the sum of forty-two dollars, being at the rate of fifty cents per day for the keeping and care of each head of stock for the period of one day.

[1] The foregoing findings of the court were sufficiently supported by the evidence in the case;…