TITLE 25

ANIMALS

CHAPTER 22

TRESPASS OF ANIMALS

25-2209.  Court proceedings. If either the person claiming the lien or the person owning the livestock commence any civil action in court in regard to the seizure of the livestock, the "viewer" proceedings taken under this chapter may be terminated by the court or the court may require an oral or written report from the viewers, if it chooses to do so, and may either accept the report and act upon it or take the matter on to trial de novo as the court determines.

History:

[25-2209, added 1978, ch. 168, sec. 2, p. 368.]