Indiana Central Railway Co. v. Oakes

Henrietta and Mary Oakes being minors, by Morris Pierson, their guardian and next friend, sued the Railway Company in trespass. The complaint consists of two counts. The first alleges that the plaintiffs were the owners and in the possession of a certain half-quarter section of land in Hancock county, and that the Company, which was the defendant, on the 1st of January 1853, and on divers other days, &c., entered upon said land, and took therefrom 25000 yards of gravel, worth 1250 dollars, and converted the same to her own use, &c. By the second count it is alleged that the defendant,…