Case ID: ind_15/html/0440-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Cleveland Railroad Company v. Sparr.
    In an action, instituted in the Court of Common Pleas, to recover damages for the killing of stock by the cars of a railroad company, the complaint must show that the injury resulted from the carelessness of the company, or that the railroad was not properly fenced.
    
      Thursday, January 24.
    APPEAL from the Delaware Common Pleas.
    
      Davis and March, for appellant.
    
      D. Nation and C. M. Anthony, for appellee.
   Per Curiam.

This was a suit by the appellee* against 'the appellant, to recover damages for the hilling of a horse, by the locomotive and cars of the company, upon the railroad track. The suit was instituted in the Court of Common Pleas, and the complaint alleges neither carelessness on the part of the agents of the company, nor that the road was not properly fenced. A demurrer to the complaint was overruled, and exception taken. Judgment for the plaintiff.

This judgment can not be sustained. The complaint should have shown that the horse was killed through the negligence of the company, or that the railroad was not properly fenced.

The judgment is reversed, with costs, and the cause re manded.