Miller v. Evansville & Indianapolis Railroad

Appellant, as the administratrix of Christopher C. Miller, instituted this action against the appellee for ten thousand dollars damages, arising out of the alleged wrongful killing of her said decedent. *571The complaint is in two paragraphs, and alleges substantially that the railroad company, by its agent, carelessly, recklessly and negligently ran its locomotive engine backwards through the town of Petersburg, Indiana, at a speed of forty miles per hour in the night time, without headlight or lantern, and without giving any signals of its approach, and thereby negligently, recklessly and…