Cones v. Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway Co.

Complaint in two paragraphs by George. W. Cones, administrator of the estate of Tilghman A. H. Cones, against the above named railway company, charging-that the latter had wrongfully caused the death of the plaintiff’s intestate by driving one of its engines and trains at an excessive rate of speed oyer a public highway crossing, without giving the signals required by law, thereby causing the engine and train so driven to collide with the buggy in which the intestate, was riding.

At the trial the jury returned a general verdict in favor of the plaintiff, assessing his damages at $2,000. With…