Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. State

It is admitted in this case that the state of Mississippi has instituted thirty-two suits against the Mobile & Ohio Eailroad Company, to recover the penalty in each case of fifty dollars, for failure to erect and keep up a board upon a post, or frame sufficiently high, at every place where the railroad may cross a highway, with this inscription: “Look out for the locomotive,” Sixteen *138of these suits were brought for failure to put up said signboard-at the railroad crossing-of a public highway in the county, and sixteen of them were brought for failure to put up said signboard at the railroad…