Plummer v. Indianapolis Union Railway Co.

This is a plain tort action wherein appellant seeks to recover damages which, it is alleged, he sustained on account of the negligent killing of his minor son. The complaint proceeds upon the theory that appellee was negligent in running one of its engines and train of cars over the crossing at Sheldon Street in the city of Indianapolis at a rate of speed in excess of four miles an hour, and without ringing the bell on the engine, in violation of one of the ordinances of the city, and that such violation of law was the proximate cause of the injury and death of plaintiff’s son. The issues…