Southern Railway Co. v. Fleming

J. W. Fleming brought suit against the Southern Railway Company, alleging, in his petition as originally filed, that he had been wrongfully ejected from the train upon which he was a passenger. He tendered the conductor upon the train his fare at the ticket rate of three cents a mile, but the conductor refused to accept fare at that rate, and demanded fare at the rate of four cents a mile. This the plaintiff refused to pay, insisting that he went to the ticket-office at the station where he boarded the train, for the purpose of buying a ticket, "something like fifteen minutes before the train…