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

RAINEY, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damages charged to have been occasioned appellee by the conductor in charge of appellant’s train by having him illegally arrested while traveling thereon as a passenger and ejected therefrom and imprisoned by the officer making the arrest.

The proof shows that appellee boarded appellant’s passenger train at Pecan Gap, after purchasing a ticket for Wolfe City. When the train reached Ladonia, a station on appellant’s road between Pecan Gap and Wolfe City, the conductor in charge of the train caused the city marshal of Ladonia to enter the car and arrest…