Legal Opinion

Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, & Cleveland Railroad v. Irish

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1872PublishedCited by 3 opinions

APPEAR from the Howard Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the CourtPettit, C. J.

This suit was brought by the appellee against the appellant for killing by its locomotive, etc., a horse, where the road was not securely fenced. Proper issues 'were formed, and the case has been twice tried by different judges, with the same result, a finding for the plaintiff. It was once reversed; The Indianapolis, etc., R. R. Co. v. Irish, 26 Ind. 268; but the evidence was different on the trials.

On the first there was a diagram of the place- of the killing and its surroundings; on the second no such diagram is in the evidence. The evidence was, in other respects, somewhat different, but…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Indianapolis, Pittsburgh & Cleveland Railroad v. IrishIndiana Supreme Court · 1866

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Woollen v. WishmierIndiana Supreme Court · 1880
  2. Langohr v. SmithIndiana Supreme Court · 1882
  3. Hopkins v. ConnelCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1875

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