Wilkes v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

The petition alleged, in substance, that the plaintiff purchased from the defendant a first-class railroad ticket, for passage from Iowa City to Oxford, stations in Iowa on defendant’s line of railroad, and immediately thereafter, with the knowledge and consent of defendant, entered and be*833came a passenger upon one of defendant’s trains at Iowa City, for the purpose of being transported to Oxford; that he presented the ticket to defendant’s train conductor, who took it up and punched it; that thereafter, and after the train had proceeded a considerable distance from Iowa City, the defendant…