Jeffersonville, Madison, & Indianapolis Railroad v. Daugherty

Complaint for injunction, in substance as follows: On the 23d day of March, 1857, The Jeffersonville Railroad Company, then owning and operating a railroad from Jeffersonville, Indiana, through Bartholomew county, to Edinburgh, in said State, purchased and received a conveyance from one Samuel Daugherty for four acres of land in Bartholomew county, adjoining the track of said railroad, describing it. The said land was so purchased because it contained a fine gravel bed, and for the use of said gravel in ballasting the track of said road. It is averred that there is no other material along the…