Ohio & Mississippi Railroad v. Fowler

Citations

• 85 Ill. 21

Syllabus

<p>Contributory negligence—-failure to fence track. Where a railroad company fails to fence its road, and stock is killed by its trains in a county where it is lawful for stock to run at large, the question of contributory negligence, in the owner permitting his stock to run at large, can not arise, and the company is liable.</p>