Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Co. v. Spangler

Citations

• 71 Ill. 568

Syllabus

<p>Railroad—when not required to fence their track and make cattle-guards. A railroad company is not bound to fence its track or make cattle-guards within the limits of a village; and a place where there is a station house, a warehouse, a.store, a blacksmith shop, a postoflice and five or six dwelling houses, whether the)' arc situated upon regularly laid out streets and alleys or not, comes fully up to the requirements of a village, for the purpose of excusing a railroad company from fencing its track within the ' limits thereof.</p>