Pennsylvania Co. v. Lilly

— This was a suit by James Lilly against the Pennsylvania Company, for killing his infant child. A demurrer to the complaint for want of sufficient facts being first overruled, the defendant answered in general denial. A jury returned a verdict, for the plaintiff, assessing his damages at eighteen hundred dollars, and, in disregard of a motion for a new trial, judgment was rendered against the defendant upon the verdict.

The first error assigned is upon the overruling of the demurrer to the complaint. The complaint charged that the •defendant owned and operated a line of railroad known as the…