Show STOCK ON RAILROAD LANDS WE aia are I 1 in receipt of the following communication dated Hen hennefer Defer summit county feb 22 1 I 1 I read to your reply a correspondent writing from littleton morgan county we would also like to ask a question we have purchased and partly paid for nearly acres of union pacific lands can our neigh deigh bora shareholders or non era otheir stock run at large on our IW land without being subject to a penalty for trespass we are re legally incorporated corp orated have a no lence fence law and bought this land because we were obliged to protect ourselves from intrusion trus norn by sheep please give your views in your semiweekly semi weekly as it is of interest to a great number of your subscribers respectfully WILLIAM BRim wan 11 the rules that govern the matter of trespass by stock on lauds pue pura chased by private bravate parties from a railroad may be thus stated stock belonging tp t parties arties other than the owners of such lands cannot lawfully be pastured or herded thereon if stock be actually pastured or herded upon such lands without the consent of the owner damages may be recovered but stock way be driven acro across M such lands in passing from one government section to another and may graze to a reasonable extent while so passing if however the lands be fenced stock must not be driven riven upon nor neross across them without the owners consent if this is done it is trespass and the owner of ahe he land may recover damages in fencing such lands ao no wever a passageway passage way be left open that will allow stock to pass pam from one government section to another the above applies to lands which i are un uncultivated cultivated and used only for grazing purposes and which alternate with government sections such lands do not come under the operations of the local no fence la law W and i the rules which gove govern rn as to them are different from the rules w which ica apply to cultivated farms 3 meadows meadow s etc if the acres purchased fromiA lOb union pacific referred to by mr brewer are uncultivated grossing grazing lands then the above applies to them but if any kind of a crop whatever has been sown upon them they come under the operations of the na no fenee fence law and if stock is driven or strays upon them fence or no fence the owners owner of the stock are liable for the damage if the lands are owned by an incorporated corp orated company the rights off of the shareholders in respect to pasturing stock upon them should he be defined by the proper officers of the company until regulations upon the subject are established by such officers the stock of ani any shake shareholder holder would be regarded the same as that of a stranger from a legal standpoint occasionally where companies or individuals purchase large tracts of land and on acquiring possession forbid persons who have hitherto allowed their stock to run on the land to continue to bolso do so trouble trod tAd arises I 1 in u organizing companies for ucb bueb a purpose individuals who have used th elands and have come to feel that they rhey have a certain vested right in connection therewith in a moral amoral if not in a legat sense ought to be permitted to be come stockholders |