Delta Air Corporation v. Porter

The plaintiff sued the defendant for damages. The petition alleged substantially as follows: that the defendant was a common carrier for hire, operating air-lines between Shreveport, Louisiana, and Atlanta, Georgia; that the plaintiff, desiring to visit a son who was in the army, called the defendant on the telephone and made a reservation to travel from Atlanta to Shreveport and return over the air-lines of the defendant; that defendant issued to plaintiff a ticket entitling him to travel to Shreveport and' return to Atlanta over the air-lines of the defendant, and plaintiff traveled to…