Detroit, Eel River & Illinois R. R. v. Barton

In this action, the appellee, as plaintiff) sued the appellant, as defendant, in a complaint of two paragraphs, before a justice of the peace of DeKalb county, Indiana.

The trial before the justice resulted in a judgment for the appellee in the sum of thirty dollars, from which the cause was appealed to the court below. In this latter court, the cause was tried by a jury, and a general verdict was returned for the appellee in the sum of thirty dollars. With their general verdict, the jury also returned their special findings on particular question's of fact submitted to them by the parties,…