Jeffersonville, Madison, & Indianapolis Railroad v. Riley

The appellee sued the appellant, alleging in her complaint that, on the 21st day of February, 1867, the defendant was, and now is, a corporation, by virtue of the laws of the State of Indiana, and was then running and maintaining a railroad to and from Jeffersonville, in the State of Indiana, to Indianapolis, in said State; that on said day Frederick Riley, since deceased, was a passenger on one of defendant’s passenger trains, then en roicte from Jeffersonville to Indianapolis; that at Seymour, a station on said railroad, the said train stopped to give the passengers an opportunity to…