Fowler v. Western & Atlantic Railroad

In the course of the cross-examination of the witness, D. Y. Hipp, by counsel for the railroad, he testified: “There is a limitation on those passes that provides that a person, the holder of that free pass or free ticket as it is called, releases the company from all liability to the person or property of the person who uses the pass on the train, and they axe all alike.” The plaintiff objected to the answer and moved to rule it out on the ground (1) the witness had shown by his other testimony that he had never seen all the passes issued and could not have known what they contained; (2) on…