Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co. v. Hayt

Plaintiff sued tbe defendant to recover damages for the killing of certain colts owned by him, by running upon them one of its trains. The breach of duty charged upon the defendant was that while operating its railroad it “did not maintain a fence of the height and strength required by law, or sufficient to prevent cattle or other animals from getting on its said railroad on the south side thereof, in the township of Ovid, aforesaid, at a place other than at a street or farm crossing or at or about station grounds, but on the contrary thereof, the said defendant, at the time and place…