Board of Commissioners v. Stock

Reinhakd, J,

The appellee sued the appellant, in the Posey Circuit Court, for damages alleged to have been sustained by him from a personal injury received by falling through a bridge while attempting to cross the same with a traction engine.

To the complaint, which is in one paragraph, the appellant filed an answer in two paragraphs, the first of which is a general denial.

In the second paragraph of the answer the appellant averred that on the 1st day of September, 1890, the appellee filed his. claim for damages for the identical injuries sued for in this action, with the board of commissioners…