Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad v. Jones

This was an action by Benjamin Jones against the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company, lessee of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Railroad Company, for killing a horse, and was commenced in the Randolph Circuit Court, from which a change of venue was taken to the court below.

The complaint charged that, in Randolph county, at a point on the railroad operated by the defendant, at which the defendant was bound to erect and maintain a fence along the line of said railroad, but at which the defendant had failed and refused to erect and maintain a fence, and at which said railroad was…