Alsop v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co.

This was a suit before a justice of the peace to recover the value of damages for a cow injured by the engine of defendant’s railroad company.

The case was removed by appeal to the circuit court where a trial by the court, a jury being waived, resulted in a finding and judgment for defendant, from which an appeal is prosecuted here by the plaintiff below. Suggestion is made that no question of law can arise here because no written propositions were submitted to be held or refused.

The citations made in support of this relate to the practice in the Supreme Court in those cases where that court…