Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Mays

The appellant was sued by the appellee for his expulsion from a passenger train upon the appellant’s railroad.

A jury rendered a general verdict for the appellee for six hundred dollars, and returned answers to interrogatories.

The special findings in answer to interrogatories showed facts substantially as follows:

The appellee entered on a train of passenger cars on the appellant’s road, at Muncie, August 6th, 1890, about 10 o’clock in the forenoon, without having, previous thereto, purchased a ticket. At that time there was in force on the appellant’s railroad a rule requiring its conductors…