Railroad v. Bigbee

These two separate cases involve the duties of a railroad company to erect and maintain stock gaps and wing fences where the road passes through or by the inclosed lands and fields of another. Bigbee owns a parcel of land lying on both sides of the railroad. On the east side he and the railroad company have erected a fence parallel with the road, and about thirty feet from it, and the space between his fence and the railroad track on this side is a deep ditch or gully, so that it is unfit for cultivation or any other ordinary use.

Bryan owns a parcel lying between Bigbee’s two tracts, coming…