Madison & Indianapolis Railroad v. Taffe

The appellee sued the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company and the Union Railway Company. The complaint alleged, that on the 20th day of December, 1865, in the corporate limits of the city of Indiánapolis, he was engaged as the conductor of a car of the Citizens’ Street Railway Company, then being run upon the track of said street railway company, upon Virginia Avenue, a street of said city.

That, while acting as such conductor upon a car of said street railway company, at the point where the track of the street railway crosses the track of the said Union Railway Company, the same being…