Smith v. Boston & Maine Railroad

The track of the defendant’s White Mountain division runs north and south through Laconia, and at the point in question cuts off a tract of shore property to the west thereof on which are situate the Dow coal sheds, oil storage tanks, junk sheds, etc. The severed tract is accessible only by a private way leading westerly from Messer street across the railroad at the Dow crossing, so called. The defendant’s track coming from the south curves slightly to the east along, and below, a steep embankment some ten or twelve feet high, the crossing being approximately at the center of the curve. The…