The Fourth District Court of Appeal wasn’t mooved by a driver’s plea for damages Wednesday when it affirmed a jury verdict finding a Florida livestock owner wasn’t responsible for a collision involving his cows, who had escaped from an unlocked gate in the middle of the night.

Years of beef between driver Ernest Carnahan and the cows’ owner, Robert Norvell, began at 4:45 a.m. on an unlit Port St. Lucie street in 2012. Carnahan wasn’t expecting to find a hazardous congregation of cows in the road, according to the lawsuit, which sought damages and costs over the crash.