Jenkins v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Miller, Judge:

The plaintiff, in December, 1903, during the prevalence of an epidemic of smallpox in Fayette county, and who had been taken with that disease, was arrested at Montgomery by the health officers near the railroad of the defendant company about three o’clock in the afternoon, and put into a common box car and locked up, without any provision for fire or bed-clothing to protect him from the severe cold weather then prevailing. This car was, about six- o’clock in the evening of the same day, taken up by the defendant, put into a freight train, and about twelve o’clock that night set…