Aplington v. Pullman Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Henry Aplingtpn, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in Hie office of the clerk of the county of. Hew York, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered-in said clerk’s office denying the plaintiff’s motion for a 'new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action to recover damages for the wrongful ejectment of the plaintiff from one of the defendant’s sleeping cars in which he had purchased a berth. On the 14th day of March, 1901, the. plaintiff at San Antonio, Tex., purchased of the agent of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad Company a through ticket for a continuous passage to Hew York and at the same time purchased a ticket from the defendant company for a double lower berth in a sleeping car from San Antonio, Tex., to Jersey City. The Pullman Company’s ticket was in two parts, one for the lower berth…
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