Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Downey

Comstock, J. —

Appellee, plaintiff below, brought this action against appellant, defendant below, to recover damages for personal injuries he claimed to have sustained through the negligence of appellant. The complaint avers, in substance, that on March 12, 1893, appellant was a corporation owning and operating a railroad through the town of Quincy, in this State, and on the day named, through its servants and employes, was running a long and heavy loaded freight train over its said road going north through said town; that said train, when going at a rapid rate, had a great momentum, which it…