McGill v. Compton

Citations

• 66 Ill. 327

Syllabus

<p>Negligence—in the use of one's own premises—liability to others for inju/ry occasioned, thereby. Where two persons owning adjoining tracts of land, not separated by any division fence, for the purpose of avoiding the expense of erecting and maintaining such a fence, mutually agreed that the stock of each might pasture, in the fall of the year, on the land of the other, it was held that the agreement, in the absence of a special contract to that effect, imposed no liability on the parties to protect from injury the stock of one while on the land of the other, as, where there was a “ slough well ” on the premises of one, around which there was no protection, and a horse of the other fell into the same and was drowned, the owner of the well was not liable for the injury.</p>