Breen v. Texas & Pacific Railroad

Moore, Chief Justice.

On the 6th day of May, 1874, appellant purchased of appellee, for the sum of four dollars and thirty cents, a ticket entitling him to ride in appellee’s cars from the city of Jefferson, Marion county, Texas, to Mineóla, in Wood county, Texas; and on the same day he entered appellee’s passenger car, on its west-bound train, for *44the purpose of going from the former to the latter place. Some short time after entering said car, and after the train had left Jefferson, the conductor thereof took up his ticket and gave him “ a piece of white card-board about two inches long and…