Gulf & Ship Island Railroad v. Ellis

Citations

• 85 Miss. 586

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Cattle guards. Code 1892, § 3561. Interior crossings.</p> <p>Where a railroad company constructed a sufficient stock gap and cattle guard, both where its track entered and-where it passed out of enclosed lands, used as one tract and belonging to one person:</p> <p>(а) It complied with Code 1892, § 3561, making it the duty of every railroad company to construct and maintain all necessary or proper stock gaps and cattle guards where its track passes through enclosed land; and</p> <p>(б) It cannot he required to construct other stock gaps or cattle guards at a place within the enclosure where it had, for the convenience of the owner, constructed a crossing over its track.</p>