Hill v. Concord & Montreal Railroad

The plaintiff’s evidence, taken in the most favorable aspect to him, tended to show that the horse escaped in the night from the plaintiff’s field into a public highway, along which it wandered a long distance from the plaintiff’s land to a railroad crossing, and, because of the lack of cattle-guards there, entered upon the defendants’ railroad track, where it was struck and killed by their locomotive engine.

“ The proprietors of every railroad shall erect and maintain a sufficient fence upon each side of their road except at the crossings of public highways; and at every such crossing they…