Phillips v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice StabeER.

This is an action in tort. The complaint alleges that at Chadbourn, N. C., on October 2, 1929, the plaintiff, with her three children of the ages of seven years, five years, and twenty months, respectively, boarded a regular passenger train of the defendant railway company, which was in charge of the defendant Gregg, as conductor, for the purpose of returning to her home in Mullins, S. C.; that she did not have sufficient time at Chadbourn to purchase tickets, but boarded the train expecting to pay the fare in cash; that shortly…