Jeffersonville, Madison, & Indianapolis Railroad v. Huber

This was an action brought by the appellee against the appellant, before a justice of the peace of Johnson county, to recover the value of a cow, owned by the plaintiff, which was killed by the cars of the railroad company on its railroad track. The right to recover in the first paragraph of the complaint is based on the failure of the railroad company to fence its road; and, in the second paragraph, on the negligence of the company.

*174After a judgment for the plaintiff before the justice of the peace, the company appealed to the Johnson Common Pleas. .In that court there was a trial by jury, a…