Stark v. Holtzclaw

In an amended declaration filed by the plaintiff in error it is alleged that electric companies operated lines of electric railway, and that the “defendants in the operation of its said property suffered and permitted to remain upon its said right of way, directly at and near a station on said Bay Shore Line, known as Patterson Station, a Magnolia Tree, of great height and numerous limbs and low-hanging branches; which said tree was on the right of way of said defendants, directly across the track from said depot or station, and unfenced, and the said defendants in the maintenance and…