If a railroad does not have proper fences or cattle guards along its tracks, and an animal gets onto the tracks and gets hurt or killed because a train scared it — causing it to run into a fence, bridge, ditch, or other object — the railroad company has to pay the animal's owner for the damages.
537.270. Insufficient fence on railroad — stock killed — . — Whenever any shall go in upon any railroad or its , in this state, and the said railroad is not at such place or places enclosed by a good fence, on both sides of said railroad, such as is by law required, or where said railroad has failed to construct and maintain a good and sufficient , or opening gate, such as is by law required, and such stock by being frightened or by any passing locomotive, motor car, or other vehicle, or train on said railroad, shall be injured or killed by or because of having run against the fence on either side, or into any , bridge, slough or mire, or other object along the line of said road, the railroad company shall pay the owner of any such stock so injured or killed the amount of the damages .
(RSMo 1939 § 5219)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 4762; 1919 § 9949; 1909 § 3146
Railroad for for killing stock until fences are built, 389.650
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