Jolly v. Terre Haute Drawbridge Co.

Trespass on the case, commenced in the Vigo Circuit Court, September term, 1852. The declaration is conformed to the old practice. Upon change of venue to Putnam county, in 1853, the pleadings and issues were made up under the new practice.

The drawbridge company sued Jolly, the captain, and Blinn, the pilot, of the steamer American Sta/r, alleging that, at the time of the injury complained of, the bridge company were the owners and in the lawful possession of the bridge in question, erected across the Wabash liver, near Terre Haute; that the bridge was erected in pursu*418anee of an act of the…