President of the Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad v. Smith

Smith sued the Terre Hcmte and Richmond Railroad Oo., under the statute, for the value of a horse killed upon the track of her road, by a locomotive.

*103The defendant answered, that on the-day of-, 1851, the plaintiff owned a tract of land, upon which he then resided, and still resides; that the defendant located her road across said track, and appropriated a strip of it one hundred feet wide; that to settle the amount of damage for so doing, the company and Smith referred the matter to the arbitrament of jReuben Hagan, and two others, who awarded to Smith, $500; $200 of which were for the land…