Evansville & Crawfordsville R. R. v. Epperson

— The appellee, as plaintiff, sued the appellant, as defendant, before a justice of the peace of Gibson county, to recover damages for the killing of appellee’s cow by the appellant.

Appellee alleged in his complaint, in substance, that* on or about the 29th day of October, 1874, the appellant,, by its agents and employees, was running its- locomotive- and train of ears, over and along its line of railroad, in-said Gibson county; that said locomotive and train of' cars, while being so run, then and there “ struck, run over and killed a cow,” belonging to the appellee, of the-value of fifty…