Miller v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BueNell, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for alleged violations of plaintiff’s rights under sees. 1810 and 1813, Stats.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BueNell, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for alleged violations of plaintiff’s rights under sees. 1810 and 1813, Stats. (1898). The statutes referred to, at the time of the wrong complained of, required every railroad corporation operating a railroad in this state to construct and maintain suitable and ■convenient farm crossings of the road for the use of the occupants of the adjoining lands, and provided that “whenever any railroad corporation shall operate a railroad over or through inclosed lands and shall fail to…
1Opinion of the CourtMabshall, J.
The preliminary question is presented of whether sec. 1813, Stats. (1898), under which the action was brought, was not so substantially changed by ch. 623, Laws of 1907, as to supersede the former law, and consequently appellant’s right to recover. The new law amended such section by substituting the words “each day after the expiration of said three months” for “each and every locomotive that may thereafter pass through such land,” thereby reducing the penalty for wrongfully failing to construct a farm crossing on inclosed land when duly requested to do so from $10 for each and every…
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