Southern Railway Co. v. Jones

The plaintiff brought a suit against the Southern Eailway Company for damages, alleging, that he endeavored to buy a ticket from Baxley to Prentiss; that he went to the depot twenty minutes before the train was due to arrive, for the purpose of purchasing a ticket, and looked in the ticket office for the agent, but the door was closed and no one was there to sell him a ticket; that after waiting for some time, and no agent being yet in sight, and the train approaching, he went to the point on the railroad where passengers were accustomed to enter the trains of the defendant, and boarded the…