Chapin v. Sullivan Railroad
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, to recover of the defendants damages alleged to have been committed to the plaintiff’s grass and crops growing upon Ms lands, adjoining the defendants’ railroad, by cattle trespassing thereon, in consequence of the neglect of the defendants to erect,and maintain suitable fences upon both sides of their track.
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Case, to recover of the defendants damages alleged to have been committed to the plaintiff’s grass and crops growing upon Ms lands, adjoining the defendants’ railroad, by cattle trespassing thereon, in consequence of the neglect of the defendants to erect,and maintain suitable fences upon both sides of their track. The action was referred to a commissioner, who made the following report of the facts proved before him; and the case was submitted to the decision of the court upon that report: “ 1. That there is a highway crossing the plaintiff’s said close, running in a northerly and southerly…
1Opinion of the CourtEowler, J.
This action is brought to recover damages which the plaintiff claims to have sustained to his lands adjoining the track of the defendants’ l’ailroad, by reason of the neglect of the defendants to erect and maintain sufficient fences between their railroad and those lands. The report of the commissioner finds the damages to have been occasioned by the ravages of cattle permitted by their owners to run at large upon the public highway, and which escaped from the highway upon the defendants’ railroad, and thence into the plaintiff’s rye field, one of the tracts *56of land to recover damages for…
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