Jessup v. High Point, Thomasville & Denton Railroad

The defendant admitted in the answer- that on infrequent occasions boys had boarded and ridden its freight cars in its yard in the City of High Point. Coupled with the admission, however, and as a part of it, is the averment that in boarding the cars the boys did so at a distance from the stations occupied by the train crew, thereby eluding efforts to apprehend them. . ■

The evidence introduced by the plaintiff is sufficient to-'show that Charles Carroll, age 14, had ridden defendant's train at least on 10 occasions; that on one occasion a member of the crew saw him. His younger brother had…