Ravatt v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

This was an action in case, in the Circuit Court of Wabash county, by appellant against appellee, to recover for a personal injury sustained by appellant while in the act of driving a team and wagon across appellee’s railroad at a public highway crossing in the country. Trial by jury. Verdict and judgment in favor of appellee.

The negligence charged in the declaration is the failure on the part of appellee to ring a bell, or sound a whistle, as provided by statute; and the declaration contains the usual and necessary averment that the appellant was in the exercise of reasonable care and…