East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co. v. King

Judgment affirmed.

King sued the railway company for damages because, having paid his fare over defendant’s road from Brunswick to Atlanta, and taken passage upon one of its trains, after the train left Macon a new conductor, who had taken charge of the train at Macon, demanded payment of fare from Macon to Atlanta, and although plaintiff submitted to that conductor proof that he had paid his fare and purchased his ticket, the conductor threatened to stop the train and eject him, and compelled him to pay fare from Macon to Atlanta, etc. He obtained a verdict for $500, and the defendant’s…