Legal Opinion
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Billings
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided January 11, 1908No. 15,324PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Error from Montgomery district .court; Thomas J. Flannelly, judge.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, C. J.:
This action was brought by Lewis Billings against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company to recover damages resulting from the failure of the company to maintain proper cattle-guards where the railway enters and leaves the fenced fields of his farm, and also to enjoin the company from hereafter operating its road through the farm without completing the enclosures on his farm with cattle-guards as the law prescribes. As the railway is constructed it intersects the fenced boundaries of Billings’s farm of 533 acres at eight…
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