Litton v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Action on the statute to recover double the value of two mules hilled by a locomotive of the defendant company. The complaint, among other things, avers as follows:

*142“That said mules came upon the track of said railroad and were killed in said township at a point Avhere said railroad passes through and along inclosed and cultivated fields and uninclosed lands and where defendant was required by law to erect and maintain lawful fences on the side of its said road with openings and gates therein, and where there was not any crossing of said road by a public highway and not within the limits of…