§ 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.