2016 Delaware Code
Title 3 - Agriculture
CHAPTER 77. STRAY LIVESTOCK
§ 7703. Damage by stray livestock.

Upon the application of any person, or the person's agent, sustaining any damage by reason of the livestock running at large contrary to this chapter, any justice of the peace or the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which damage was incurred by livestock, which may or may not have been taken up and impounded, shall designate the State Veterinarian, a county extension agent and a livestock owner of the county in which the damage was incurred, who shall estimate said damages and make a report to the justice or Court, in writing, under their hands or the hands of the majority of them, the amount of damage estimated. The justice or Court shall immediately give notice thereof to the parties interested. The damages so ascertained, together with the legal charges for impounding and keeping the livestock, shall be paid by the person claiming the stock before the same shall be delivered.

19 Del. Laws, c. 657, § 3; Code 1915, § 3634; Code 1935, § 4184; 3 Del. C. 1953, § 7703; 67 Del. Laws, c. 195, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;