Terre Haute Electric Railway Co. v. Yant

Appellee, who was plaintiff below, sued the Terre Haute Electric Railway Company to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the appellant company. The complaint was in two paragraphs; the first charging negligence, the second wilful injury. The second paragraph was withdrawn. A demurrer for want of facts to the first paragraph was overruled, the cause put at issue by general denial, and verdict returned in favor of appellee for $905. A motion for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was com trary to law, was not sustained by sufficient…