Southern Ry. Co. v. Rhodes
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee.
1Opinion of the Court
SEVERENS, District Judge.
This was an action brought by G. W. Rhodes, the defendant in error, against the Southern Railway Company, the plaintiff in error, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him through the alleged negligence of the railway company. The declaration alleged, in substance, that the plaintiff, on or about the 24th day of .November, 1895, had purchased a ticket of the defendant’s agent at Sherman Heights, in Hamilton county, Tenn., for passage to Charleston, a station on the defendant’s road in the same state, and was in the depot at Sherman Heights, awaiting…
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