Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Hans

Citations

• 111 Ill. 114

Syllabus

<p>1. BahiBOAD — statute construed as to duty to fence trade at stations. The statute of this State requiring railway companies to fence each side of their roads, to prevent cattle from getting on the same, except at public road crossings and within cities and villages laid out into lots and blocks, and mating them liable for injury to stock for a failure to do so, is not intended to apply to public stations or depot grounds, although such stations or depot grounds may not be within the limits of a village, town or cifrf, or at a highway crossing. But side-tracks not at stations or depots, and such parts of side-tracks as do not constitute a part of the depot yard, may well be held to be within the statute.</p> <p>2. Same — duty to provide means of access to depots. It is made the duty of railway companies to establish depots, and so operate their roads as to afford the public reasonable safety and dispatch in the transaction of business; and to effect this, it is necessary that they should, at all reasonable times, provide a ready and convenient means of access to their stations and depots.</p> <p>3. Fobmeb decision — overruled in part, and explained. The reasoning of the court in the case of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul R. R. Co. v. Dumser, 109 Ill. 402, in so far as it intimates that the company was derelict in failing to fence its road at its depot grounds, being not necessary to the decision of the case, is not to be treated as authority.</p>