Legal Opinion

Louisville, New Albany & Chicago R. W. Co. v. Smith

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1877PublishedCited by 8 opinions

From the Owen Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the CourtPerkins, J.

David H. Smith sued the Louisville, New *576Albany and Chicago Railway Company, to recover damages occasioned by the running against and injuring a horse of his, by a locomotive of the defendant.

The complaint is in two paragraphs.

The first charges negligence on the part of the road, and alleges that the plaintiff was without fault.

The second charges, that the horse was killed at a point where the road was not so fenced as to prevent animals from straying onto it, and had not been for a long time.

A demurrer.to each paragraph, for want of facts, was overruled, and exception taken. Answer, the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Indianapolis, Bloomington, & Western R. W. Co. v. McBrownIndiana Supreme Court · 1874

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Sannoner v. Jacobson & Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1885
  2. Wabash Railway Co. v. ForsheeIndiana Supreme Court · 1881
  3. Sherlag v. KelleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
  4. Croy v. Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1884
  5. Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis R. R. v. DowneyIndiana Supreme Court · 1878

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