Sickman v. United States (Two Cases). Ryal v. United States

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• holding that the United States government could not be held liable for crop destruction by wild geese
• stating “a private person could not be held liable for the trespasses of animals which are ferae naturae, and which have not been reduced to possession, but which exist in a state of nature”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).