Southern Railway Co. v. Johnson

The plaintiff, a woman who lived at Plainville, a small station on the defendant’s line of railroad, not a great distance from Rome, went to that city to do some shopping. She spent all her money except thirty cents, the fare from Rome to Plainville. Her train passed Rome late in the afternoon. About the middle of the afternoon she went to the station and asked the agent to sell her a ticket. He told her that he would not sell her a ticket until twenty minutes before the train arrived. She remained about the waiting-room during the afternoon and until after the train arrived, and by reason of…