Indiana Central Railroad v. Hunter

Matthew It. Hunter, and other heirs 0f John Hunter, deceased, filed their complaint before a justice of the peace, setting forth that they had been injured by said company, by an entry upon, and location of their railroad track through, the plaintiffs’ lands. The complaint proceeds: “They particularly set forth the nature and locality of the injury to be as follows: the track of said railroad enters upon said land from the east, about six rods from the north line thereof, and passes diagonally through said land, occupying, as the complainants allege, about seven acres of said tracts of land.…