Indianapolis, Bloomington, & Western Railway Co. v. Lyon

The appellee sued the appellant before a justice of the peace, alleging in his complaint, “ that heretofore, to wit, on the 22d day of March, 1872, the said defendant, by her agents, killed a cow, the personal property of this plaintiff about two and a half miles east of Covington, by running *120over and upon said cow a locomotive, and that said cow was of the value of sixty dollars; and plaintiff says, at the time and place when and where said cow was run over and killed as aforesaid, the road was not securely fenced, as required by law; wherefore,” etc.

Before the justice of the peace, the…