Pretty much standard for the farmer to be responsible if someone hits a cow.
It depends on whether that state has a fence law.
Does anyone know?
Does it make a difference as to on who's land the cattle/cow are grazing?
If the Fed is leasing land for grazing purposes, should they not be responsible for maintaining the fence?
Irish case law offers this:
In Scully v. Mulhall17, for example, it was held that a person is not guilty of negligence for merely bringing and driving a bullock known to be quiet on the highway. The action arose because although known to be quiet and being driven properly the bullock in question suddenly broke into a gallop and knocked the plaintiff off her bicycle.
Just sayin'.
Out this way it’s fence them OUT not fence them IN on range land.
It depends on whether that state has a fence law.
Does anyone know?
http://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/fence/nv_fnc.htm
568.360. Duties of owners of domestic animals with respect to domestic animals upon the highway
1. No person, firm or corporation owning, controlling or in possession of any domestic animal running on open range has the duty to keep the animal off any highway traversing or located on the open range, and no such person, firm or corporation is liable for damages to any property or for injury to any person caused by any collision between a motor vehicle and the animal occurring on such a highway.
2. Any person, firm or corporation negligently allowing a domestic animal to enter within a fenced right of way of a highway is liable for damages caused by a collision between a motor vehicle and the animal occurring on the highway.
So I guess that as in everything legal, the answer is “yes and no”.
Not on open range. That said, the Interstate Freeway System isn’t.
That’s why I have a liability policy.Two million is a good starting point if you have large animals on the farm.