Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. Dwelle
Supreme Court of Kansas
jError from Marion District Court. Action by J. C. Dwelle to recover damages from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Eé Eailroad Company for wrongfully and forcibly ejecting him from one of its passenger trains.
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jError from Marion District Court. Action by J. C. Dwelle to recover damages from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Eé Eailroad Company for wrongfully and forcibly ejecting him from one of its passenger trains. The plaintiff alleges that on April 13,1887, he went to the station of Cedar Grove for the purpose of taking passage on the next train of the defendant to the city of Florence; that when he arrived at the station there was no agent or person authorized to sell tickets at the station, and he was unable to procure a ticket for such passage; that he then went upon the train and tendered…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
J. C. Dwelle was expelled from one of the trains of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Company on April 13, 1887, for the reason that he refused to pay the fare which the collector of the train demanded of him. He took passage on the train at the station of Cedar Grove for the purpose of going to Florence, a distance of six miles. He reached Cedar Grove about the time of the arrival of the train, and after the station agent had left the ticket office and gone to the forward part of the train to assist in loading the baggage that was…
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