Southern Indiana Railway Co. v. Norman
Indiana Supreme Court
Erom Lawrence Circuit Court; James B. Wilson, Judge. Action by Elmer C. Forman against tbe Southern Indiana Railway Company. From a jiidgment on a verdict for $600, defendant appeals. Transferred from Appellate Court under §1337u Burns 1901, Acts 1901, p. 590.
1Opinion of the CourtMonks, C. J.
This action was brought by appellee to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by appellant’s employes “negligently, carelessly and unlawfully placing a hand-car filled with tools, coats, dinner buckets and other objects and things of said employes,” upon the public highway, within two feet of the traveled track thereof. Appellant’s demurrer to the complaint for want of facts was overruled. A trial of said cause resulted in a verdict, and, over a motion for a new trial, a judgment in favor of appellee.
The errors assigned are: (1) The court erred in overruling the…
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- Debolt v. CarterIndiana Supreme Court · 1869
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