N.Y. Town Law § 307: Damages for insufficient fence

§ 307. Damages for insufficient fence. Whenever the electors of any

town shall have made any rule or regulation prescribing what shall be

deemed a sufficient division fence in such town, any person who shall

thereafter neglect to keep a fence according to such rule or regulation

shall be precluded from recovering compensation for damages done by any

beast lawfully kept upon the adjoining lands that may enter therefrom on

any lands of such person, not fenced in conformity to the said rule or

regulation, through any such defective fence. When the sufficiency of a

fence shall come in question in any action, it shall be presumed to have

been sufficient until the contrary be established.