151 Ind. 577 | Ind. | 1897
This is the second appeal in this case, the name of the appellee having been changed after the cause was remanded from this court to the trial court. Chicago, etc., R. W. Co. v. Whiting, etc., R. W. Co., 139 Ind. 297. See that case for a statement of the facts. On the return of the case, action was sus
By wear and decay, it became necessary to repair them. By the rapid increase of traffic over such crossings, they were much impaired; and by the recent improvement of the methods of constructing such crossings, the jump crossing was passing out of use among the best regulated railways, and in its stead what was known as the “frog crossing” had been introduced, and was being generally adopted by such railways. The appellee, offering to make such repairs by substituting the frog crossings, was prevented therefrom again by force on the part of the appellant. Thereupon appellee amended its complaint by way of a supplemental complaint, setting forth the foregoing facts, praying for another temporary injunction, and for a perpetual injunction, on the final hearing enjoining appellant from such interference. The temporary injunction was granted, and the venue was changed from the Lake Circuit Court to the Porter Circuit Court, where the issues formed were tried, resulting in a finding in favor of the plaintiff, upon which appellee took judgment perpetually enjoining the appellant from such interference, over appellant’s motion for a new trial.
The only error assigned and not waived by appellant calls in question the action of the trial court in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial. Among the reasons assigned for a new trial, and the only one argued in appellant’s brief, was the one that the finding was contrary to law. The only difference between the facts now involved and the facts involved when the case was here before is that before it was jump crossings the appellee was asking to put in, and
