Texas N. O. R. Co. v. Bass

This was an action by appellee, as plaintiff, against appellant, as defendant, for damages for wrongfully ejecting him from its train, and upon a trial to a jury resulted in judgment in appellee’s favor for the sum of $7,-714.50.

Under the allegations of his petition, on the 23d day of August, 1930, appellee purchased a ticket from appellant’s agent at Lufkin, entitling him to transportation over appellant’s line of railway from Lufkin to Shreveport; on authority of this ticket he boarded appellant’s train at Lufkin, and, after boarding the train, delivered his ticket to Shreveport to…