Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Lackey

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Marion circuit court, rendered at the October term, 1870, upon the following agreed state of facts:

“ It was agreed in this case that, during the year 1869, three persons were run over and killed by trains on the railroad of appellant, in Marion county, and the appellee, being coroner of said county at the time, held an inquest in each case, the expenses of which, together with the costs of burial, amount, in the aggregate, to $91.15; that if appellant was, in law, liable to appellee, upon the facts stated, for the above amount, then judgment should…