Louisville, Nashville & Great Southern Railroad v. Guinan

Guinan sued the railroad company for wrongfully ■ejecting him, being a passenger, from the company’s train of cars. The jury found a verdict in his favor for $250, and the company appealed in error.

Guinan got on the train at Milan to go to Humboldt, without buying a ticket. The price of a 'ticket between these points was fifty-five cents. 'When the conductor went through the train to take up the tickets of the passengers, Guinan tendered him fifty-five cents in silver. The conductor declined, to take the money, telling Guinan that the fare required to - be paid on the train was sixty cents.…