Pyott v. State

Running across the farm of the prosecuting witness, Combs, from the northwest to the southeast, are two parallel ridges or elevations. The track of the Lake Erie & Western Railway Company, running east and west, and constructed in 1875, crossed the two ridges at a point about thirty rods north of where the ridges drop into the lowlands or bottom lands of Wild Cat creek. At the point *119of intersection, the railroad is practically on a level with the lowest part of the valley or depression intervening between said ridges; the railroad cut through the west ridge being seven feet deep, and through…