Village
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Any small assemblage of houses for dwellings or business, or both, in the country, whether they are situated upon regularly laid out streets and alleys or not, constitutes a village, within the rule that a railroad company is not bound to fence its track within the limits of a village. Illinois Central R. R. Co. w.
Williams, 27 lU. 48.
A place where there is a station-house, a warehouse, a store, a blacksmith-shop, a post-office, and five or six dwelling-houses, whether they are situated upon regularly laid out streets and alleys or not, comes fully up to the requirements of the word village, for the purpose of excusing a railroad company from fencing its track within the limits thereof. Toledo, &o.
Railway Co. V. Spangler, 71 III. 568.