Rossignoll v. Northeastern Railroad

Hall, Justice.

The plaintiff donated to the railroad company a right-of-way through an enclosed field belonging to him; the fence around this field came to the road-bed on each side of the same, and at each place where the road intersected the enclosure, stock-guards were placed by the company at both-the openings made in the enclosure by its road. The declaration alleged these facts; and further, that these guards were insufficient to keep the stock out of his field, on which was a growing crop of corn and other field . products; that, in consequence of the insufficiency of these stock-gaps…