Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Mugg
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Tippecanoe Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
— This was an action by the appellee against the appellant for the alleged wrongful killing of her intestate. Issue upon a general denial of the complaint, trial by jury, verdict for the appellee, and judgment upon the verdict.
The complaint charges that the plaintiff’s intestate, William Mugg, was in the employ of the defendant as a yard switchman, and that a part of his duties was the coupling and uncoupling of cars in its 'yards; that on and before the 22d day of January, 1888, there was, in a side-track, where the intestate was engaged, a defective, unsafe, in*170sufficient and dangerous rail,…
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