Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western Ry. Co. v. Strain

This was an action brought by Owens & Strain against The Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Bailway Company,to- recover the value of seven lost hogs, claimed to have escaped from the cars of the company, and shipped, as Owens & Strain claim, from Clinton, in this State, to Pittsburgh, but, as the railroad company claim, from Clinton to Indiano!a, the station at the end of their railroad at Indianapolis, Indiana.' There was a judgment against the railway company for $98, from which they have appealed.

The hogs in question were part of a lot of 199 head, contracted to be transported at a…