Chicago, M. G.R. Co. v. Wheeler

The plaintiff below,' Jim Wheeler, sued the defendants below, Chicago, Memphis & Gulf Railroad Company and Illinois Central Railroad Company in an action for damages for wrongfully causing the flooding and washing of his crops.

The ease originated before a justice of the peace and was appealed from his judgment to the circuit court of Dyer county, where it'was tried to the circuit judge and a jury and resulted in a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $50. Defendant’s motion for a new trial having been overruled, judgment was entered against it for the amount of the verdict, together with the…