Townsend v. . N.Y. Cen. H. River R.R. Co.

This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for an assault upon and forcibly ejecting him from its car, at Staatsburg, a station on defendant's road between Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck.

The jury by their verdict have found that the plaintiff purchased a ticket at the station at Sing Sing, for Rhinebeck; that with this ticket he went on board a train from New York, going no farther north than Poughkeepsie; that after this train passed Peekskill the conductor called for tickets and the plaintiff handed his to him, which he took and retained, giving to the plaintiff no check or…