Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad v. Kendall

This action was begun in the Vigo Circuit *461Court. The venue was afterwards changed to the Parke Circuit Court, where the case was tried by a jury, with verdict and judgment in favor of the appellee for the sum of nine hundred dollars.

It is alleged in the appellee’s complaint that the appellant’s railroad track crosses Crawford street, a public highway in the city of Terre Haute, and that public travel might cross said track at its intersection with said street the appellant constructed at that point a plank crossing; that said crossing was so negligently built that there was an aperture of…