Abbitt v. Lake Erie & Western Railway Co.

Appellant, as the administratrix of William F. Abbitt, instituted this action in the special term of the Marion Superior Court to recover of the appellee railroad company, damages for the alleged negligent hilling of her decedent. On a trial before a jury she was successful in her action, and a verdict was returned in her favor for eight thousand dollars, and over appellee’s motion for a new trial, judgment was rendered upon the verdict. From this judgment appellee appealed to the general term of the Marion Superior Court, where it secured a reversal, and from the judgment of the general…