Snyder v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

The plaintiff sues to recover for the destruction of livestock, claiming that on August 21, 1936, one of his mares “undertook to cross the defendant’s railroad on the section line between sections seven and eight, in township one hundred thirty-eight, north of range seventy-nine. . . . That while said section line is a public'highway the defendant maintained a gate along and across said highway immediately north of its tracks and said defendant was careless and negligent in permitting the gate across said highway to be open, so as ■to permit livestock to travel on said highway across the…