Razor v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

This is a suit commenced before a justice of the peace, on the following statement: “Plaintiff, for a cause of action, states that the defendant is a corporation duly organized and existing as such by virtue of the general and special laws of Missouri, and that as such corporation, it is the owner of that certain railroad known as the Iron Mountain Railroad, which passes through Castor township in said county ; that as such railroad corporation it was the duty of defendant to erect and maintain lawful fences, gates, cattle-guards and road-crossings on the sides of its said railroad in said…