Chicago & Erie Railroad v. Olsen

The facts in this case and the legal principles to be applied to them are, in all essential particulars, like those in the case of Chicago, etc., R. R. Co. v. Field, 7 Ind. App. 172. That case was reversed upon the special verdict of the jury.

In the present case, there was no special verdict, but the evidence is in the record and does not make any stronger case for the appellee than the special verdict in the case cited.

The appellant’s motion for a new trial in this case was grounded upon the cause, in part, that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict. The overruling of that…