Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Shelton

HALL, C.

The essential facts in this case are as follows: The plaintiff in error, the defendant in the court below, is a common carrier of passengers operating a system of steam railways. At the town of Walters, in this state, plaintiff purchased a railway ticket over defendant’s railway to some other town or place. At the proper time, on the arrival of the train, by permission of the persons in charge of the train, plaintiff got on or boarded the train and walked some distance down the aisle of the coach and located a vacant seat and sat down. Within a very short while, and before the train…