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CHICAGO, & c. RY. CO. v. ANDERSON

No. 34.

242 U.S. 283 (1916)

CHICAGO, TERRE HAUTE & SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. ANDERSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 18, 1916.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William F. Peter, with whom Mr. James C. Hutchins was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

No brief filed for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

A statute of Indiana provides as follows:

"Sec. 1. . . . That all railroad corporations doing business in this State shall, between the first day of July and the twentieth day of August in each year, cause all thistles, burrs, docks and other noxious weeds growing on lands occupied by them in any city, village or township of this State, to be cut down and destroyed...

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