KRS 256.080: Liability when livestock enter through lawful fence -- Lien on

livestock.

If any livestock enter into any land over or through a lawful fence, the owner or

manager of the livestock shall for the first trespass be liable to the owner or

occupant of that land for damages to his or her trees, grass, grain, crops, livestock

or land as he or she may have sustained by the entry of the livestock, and for every

subsequent trespass by the livestock of the same owner, double damages. After

giving the owner or manager of the livestock at least five (5) days' notice, in writing,

of the fact of two (2) previous breaches into the same enclosure by the livestock of

the same owner, the owner or occupant of the enclosure shall have a lien on the

livestock to indemnify him or her on account of any damages sustained by the third

or any subsequent trespasses of those livestock and may enforce his or her lien by

action as in cases of a mortgage lien.