New Albany & Vincennes Plank Road Co. v. Stallcup

This was a suit by the New Albany and Vincennes Plank Road Company, against Henry Stallcup, for balances of toll claimed to be due for passing over a portion of the plaintiff’s'road in Orange county, on six different occasions, going and returning with a wagon and two horses, alleging that the defendant each time fraudulently misrepresented the distance he had travelled over said road, and for penalties under the statute for fraudulently evading the jjayment of full toll at such six different times. 1 R. S. 1876, p. 660, sec. 17; Local Laws 1860, 1851, p. 201, sec. 10.

The suit was commenced…