Mississippi Supreme Court October 15, 1895 (Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad v. Jones)

Woods, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Section 3561, code of 1892, which requires of railroad companies, under heavy penalty, the construction and maintenance *404of all necessary or proper stock gaps and cattle guards where their tracks pass through inclosed land, and of convenient and suitable crossings over their tracks for necessary plantation roads, must be strictly construed, and