Bechdolt v. Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad

This was an action for damages brought by John W. Bechdolt against the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company for running over and killing two horses of the alleged aggregate value of three hundred dollars.

The complaint was in three paragraphs. The first charged that the point at which the horses entered upon the railroad -track was not securely fenced.

The second repeated the charge that, at the point in question, the railroad was not securely fenced, but was negligently left open and uninclosed; that near the place at which the horses entered upon the track, two strips of fence, one on…