Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Co. v. Chapin

Citations

• 66 Ill. 504

Syllabus

<p>Railboad—duty to fence—excepted place. Where a railroad company-had a switch outside the platted limits of an unincorporated village, but adjacent to the same, and in this locality there was a warehouse and a store, and it was used by the public as much as any portion of the village, and 'he switch was so located that it could not be reached by teams for loading and unloading if there was a fence erected there: Held, that the facts were sufficient to justify the inference that the place was ground open to the public, where a fence was not required.</p>