Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Pedigo

This action was brought by Pedigo against the railway company to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered by him on January 31st, 1884, at Broad Ripple, near the city of Indianapolis, while being-carried as a passenger on one, of the company’s trains.

The injury is alleged to have been sustained without the plaintiff’s fault, by the breaking down of a railway bridge,, negligently maintained by the company over White river. In consequence of the fall of the bridge, the car in which the plaintiff was seated was thrown into the river below.

The plaintiff had judgment in…