Evansville & Crawfordsville Railroad v. Wolf

— The complaint of the appellee against the appellant avers, that “August Wolf, aged two years, the son and servant of the plaintiff, and residing with him, was carelessly upon the railroad track of the defendant, near the dwelling-house of the plaintiff, without any fault or negligence on the part of the plaintiff, when the servants of the defendant, in full sight of the child aforesaid, wrongfully, carelessly, negligently and wilfully ran a locomotive upon and over said child, by means of which he was so injured that he died.”

Upon the issue joined by a general denial, a trial by jury was…