Carpenter v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Ry. Co.

The plaintiff instituted this action before a justice of the peace to recover double the damages caused to him by the destruction of his corn, through hogs breaking into his field from the defendant’s right of way, owing to an insufficient fencing of the way.

The action was brought under the statute (Bev. Stat. sect. 809), which, among other things, makes the corporation liable in double the amount of all damages /caused by reason of horses, cattle, mules, or other animals escaping from, or coming upon said land, fields, or other enclosures, occasioned in either case by the failure to…