Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad v. Eaton

On the afternoon of the 12th day of July, 1881, Mrs. Mary M. Eaton purchased of the proper agent at the Union Depot, at Indianapolis, a ticket-entitling her to transportation over .the railroad belonging to and operated by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Railroad Company, from that depot to Morehouse, a flag station a few miles east of Indianapolis, and soon thereafter, that is to say, on the same afternoon, entered a train of that company’s cars which stopped regularly at Morehouse when signaled to do so. Her place of ultimate destination was the house of a brother-in-law, named…