Neutz v. Jackson Hill Coal & Coke Co.

The questions presented by the record in this case arise upon the action of the trial court in rendering judgment for the appellee upon the special verdict of the jury. By said verdict the jury found that the appellee was engaged in mining and shipping coal, and for its convenience in said business it had constructed a switch or short line of railway from the Evansville and Terre Plaute Railway to and for a short distance beyond its mines. The grade of said line from said mine outward was so inclined that when cars were placed upon it, beyond the mines, they would, by their own weight, run…