Indianapolis & Cincinnati Railroad v. Means

This was an action by the appellee against the company, commenced before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the Common Pleas, where it was tried by the Court and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, over a motion for a new trial.

In the Common Pleas, as well as before the justice, a motion was made by the defendant to dismiss the cause for the want of a sufficient statement of the cause of action, which was overruled. The cause of action is as follows :

“The Indimapolis Railroad Company to Fountain Means, Dr., to one milch cow killed between Brookfield and London, in Shelby county,…