Pierson v. Illinois Central Railroad

Plaintiff recovered a judgment in an action of trespass on the case against defendant, for damT ages resulting from being forcibly ejected, by the conductor, from a train of defendant upon which plaintiff was *169riding as a passenger, between Omaha and Chicago, near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Suit was begun by attachment in the circuit court for Calhoun county, and jurisdiction obtained by the seizure of certain cars of defendant, a foreign corporation.

Plaintiff, on December 12, 1903, purchased and paid for a ticket at Seattle, Wash., at the office of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, from…