Depot

Within the meaning of statutes obliging railroad companies to fence their tracks excepting depot grounds, mgre distance from depots has been held not to be the controlling consideration in determining how far they extend; Rabidon v. R. Co., 115 Mich. 390, 73 N. W. 3S6, 39 L. R. A. 405. Public convenience is held to be the limit of such an exception; Greeley v. Ry. Co., 33 Minn. 136, 22 N. W. 179, 53 Am. Rep. 16. They may include the terminals and switch stands of all switches or side tracks at all stations; Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Blankenbeckler, 13 Tex. Civ. App. 249, 35 S. W. 331; ground necessary to take in wood and water; Fowler v. Loan Co., 21 Wis. 77; Jeffersonville, M. & I. R. Co. v. Beatty, 36 Ind. 19; Harvey v. Southern Pac. Co., 46 Or. 505, 80 Pac. 1061; or for switches; Illinois Cent. R. Co. v. Finney, 42 111. App. 390; a tract of five or six acres has been held to be included in depot grounds; Davis v. R. Co., 26 la.

549.

A place where military supplies and stores are kept.

Caldwell's Case, 19 Wall. (U. S.) 264, 22 L. Ed. 114.