Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Sparger

FINLEY, Associate Justice.

The appellee, plaintiff below, instituted this suit in the County Court of Fannin County to recover of defendant $500 damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by wrongful ejection of plaintiff from one of defendant’s passenger trains, plaintiff claiming that on February 17, 1893, he applied at the ticket office of defendant at Ladonia, Texas, in due time for a ticket to Wolfe City; failing to procure the same he boarded the train for Wolfe City, and thereafter was put off the train by the conductor because he refused to pay ten cents additional fare, and…