Prather v. Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad

This was an action by the appellant against the appellees to recover damages for trespass, in forcibly entering on appellant’s lands, without right, destroying growing timber, excavating holes and erecting telegraph poles, with wires thereon, with a view to appropriate said lands, and divesting appellant thereof, without first assessing and tendering compensation therefor. And appellant seeks an injunction to prevent such possession, further use and appropriation, and to abate such structures as may have been placed there, as a nuisance, and to prevent their repetition by injunction, and all…