Indiana Central Railway Co. v. Leamon

Leamon, who was the plaintiff, sued the railway company before a justice of the peace, alleging, in his complaint, that the defendants, on the 3d of August, 1857, run their locomotive or cars over and killed a certain hog belonging to the plaintiff, of the value of 6 dollars. And further, that the plaintiff, on the 14th of May, 1858, was the owner of a certain cow worth 25 dollars, and that deféndants killed said cow, by causing their locomotive or cars to run over or against her; all of which was done in Hancock county, Indiana. "Wherefore the plaintiff demands judgment for 31 dollars, &c.…