Cacey v. Virginian Ry. Co.

The crossing steps involved in this litigation were constructed because the plaintiff railway company laid its track through Matoaka, W. Va., in such way as to separate a large part of the mining village of the Pawama Coal & Coke Company from the town. The steps were built by the coal company in order that its employees and tenants might have more convenient access to the town from which they had been separated by the construction of the tracks. After they had been built, the railway company required the execution of a dollar-a-year encroachment lease for the property on which they were…