Continental Improvement Co. v. Ives

The questions in this case are not unlike those in the ease of the same plaintiffs against William H. Southwick. —Supra p. 444. But the injuries being of a different character from the damage recovered for in that case, the changes made from time to time in the railroad laws become material. In that case there was no dispute but that there had always been a responsibility for the destruction of cattle and other animals; but it is claimed that for other damages this has not been so.

The court below held there was no liability under the law as it now stands for any damage which was shown to have…