State v. Indiana & Illinois Southern Railroad

This suit was brought by the prosecuting attorney of Greene county, Indiana, to recover penalties under an act of the legislature requiring persons and corporations operating railroads to place blackboards in conspicuous places at their stations, and write upon them the fact as to whether or not the trains stopping at such stations are on time, and if late, how much.

The complaint consists of numerous paragraphs. A demurrer was addressed to the complaint for want of facts, and sustained, exceptions were reserved, and this appeal was prosecuted, and such ruling assigned as error. The error…