Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago R. W. Co. v. Crandall

Suit commenced before a justice of the peace in St. Joseph county, under the act of March 4th, 1863,1 R. S. 1876, p. 7.51, by the appellee, against the appellant, for killing a cow with an engine and cars, on the railroad track.

*366Appeal from the justice to the St. Joseph Circuit Court, and a transfer of the case by a change of venue to the La Porte Circuit Court, wherein the case was tried, and a judgment rendered against the appellant. Appeal to this court. The questions of law and fact were properly reserved in the record, and are presented here by assignments of error.

At the trial the…