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denies - that an arrangement was agreed upon whereby each should take a calf - This dispute brought the case into Court - where each party's witnesses swore to diametrically opposed facts - The Court could make nothing of such conflicting testimony - and decided that the estrays belonged to neither party - but that as they were on Porter's land - (viz: this field which Porter had not rented to Johnson - but had given him the privilege of grazing upon if he fenced it in -) He (Porter) should retain possession of them - 
The so called contract - is not drawn up - in accordance with required fences - and was only admitted as testimony from the fact - that both parties acknowledged in Court - that it constituted the articles of agreement between them - Chas. Johnson - bases his claim to the calf - first - on the agreement he alleges to have been made between himself 

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