Scholwin v. Wilbanks

The petition as amended does not entitle the plaintiff to the recovery of the damages sought. While a carrier owes to his passenger the duty of protecting him from insult, injury, and mortification, the carrier is not liable where the passenger is arrested by a sheriff under a valid process. See Bright v. Central of Ga. Ry. Co., 12 Ga. App. 364 (77 S. E. 372); Baldwin v. Seaboard Air Line Ry., 128 Ga. 567 (58 S. E. 35); Brunswick & W. R. Co. v. Ponder, 117 Ga. 63 (43 S. E. 430, 60 L.R.A. 713, 97 Am. St. R. 152). The fact that the ticket agent of the defendant carrier at Eastman had a personal…