Cowen v. Winters
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. This is an action in tort against a railroad company by a person who, after taking passage, was forcibly ejected from a passenger train by the conductor. There was a judgment in favor of the plaintiff below for $1,000 (90 Fed. 99). from which the railroad company has sued out this writ of error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. This is an action in tort against a railroad company by a person who, after taking passage, was forcibly ejected from a passenger train by the conductor. There was a judgment in favor of the plaintiff below for $1,000 (90 Fed. 99). from which the railroad company has sued out this writ of error. The facts of the case were practically undisputed, and were substantially these: The Cin cinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw Railroad Company sold to the plaintiff below a certain mileage ticket, which purported on its face…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
There was no error in directing a verdict for the plaintiff below. The Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw Railroad Company was the authorized agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company in selling the ticket presented by Winters as good for passage over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. As an excuse for the repudiation of this ticket, the plaintiff in error shows that on July 81, 1897, it was notified by the said Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw Railroad Company that one of its agents had .wrongfully sold a batch of mileage tickets good over the lines of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, upon…
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