145 Mich. 706 | Mich. | 1906
The defendant appeals from a judgment on a charge of negligently omitting to keep its fences in repair. It defended upon the claim that plaintiff’s colts were killed by reason of their escape from the pasture to the highway and from there they strayed to and entered defendant’s yard at Detroit, where its line fence was down in places.
The circuit judge left to the jury the question whether this was a railroad yard, within the meaning of the law, and defendant has assigned error thereon, and upon his refusal to direct a verdict in its favor. The testimony shows that running out from its station in Detroit defendant has a large number of tracks, which, at the point where
There is sufficient in the undisputed proof to show, that these premises are yards within the meaning of the statute, the case coming easily within the rule of Katzinski v. Railway Co., 141 Mich. 75. The court should have directed a verdict for the defendant.
The judgment is reversed, and a judgment will be entered here for defendant, with costs of .both courts.