Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Co. v. Miller
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Allen Circuit Court; E. O’Rourke, Judge. Action by Sebastian Miller against tbe Fort "Wayne and Wabasb Valley Traction Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHottel, J.
This was an action for damages on account of personal injuries received by appellee in a runaway, alleged to have been caused by the negligent operation of one of appellant’s interurban ears.
Appellee filed three paragraphs of complaint, but dismissed the first of these, and proceeded upon the other two, to each of which a demurrer was overruled and exception given to appellant. The case was put at issue by an answer in general denial, and upon a trial the jury returned a general verdict for plaintiff for $5,000, with its answers to interrogatories. Appellee remitted $1,000 from this verdict,…
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- Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad v. CristIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
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