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

Action by Martha J. Meadows against the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway Company, for killing a colt, on the 30th day of November, 1881, at a point on its track at which it was not securely fenced. The action was commenced in the White Circuit Court, but was after-wards, by a change of venue, taken to the Carroll Circuit Court. The court trying the cause made a finding for the plaintiff, assessing her damages at $60, and gave her judgment for that sum, first overruling a motion for a new tidal, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the finding. Having appealed to…