State v. President & Directors of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad

Solon Bussell, district attorney, filed an affidavit and information, in the Court of Common Pleas of Dearborn county, against the appellee, for obstructing a public highway. A, summons was issued and served by delivering a certified copy thereof to Lewis W. Drake, station agent, at Lawrenceburg, and by leaving a certified copy thereof at the residence of Theodore Gazlay, in Dearborn county, attorney and director of said railroad company.

The railway company, at the February term, 1863, of said Court of Common Pleas, entered a special appearance by her attorneys for that purpose, and moved the…