Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. Co. v. People ex rel. Jett

The relator filed a petition alleging the appellant was an incorporated railway company operating a certain railroad from the citjr of St. Louis, Missouri, across the county of Montgomery and through the corporate limits of the city of Hillsboro, in said county, to the city of Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana. It was further alleged the city of Hillsboro was, and for many years had been, the county seat of said county of Montgomery, and that the appellant kept and maintained a railroad station and depot within the corporate limits of said city, where its passenger trains were accustomed…