Powell v. Texas & New Orleans Railroad

DENMAN, Associate Justice.

Plaintiff in error sued defendant in error, alleging in her petition that on the 24th day of May, 1894, she purchased a ticket over defendant’s road, whereby it agreed to transport her from Houston to New Orleans; that on the 18th day of July, 1894, having hoarded defendant’s train at Houston for the purpose of going to New Orleans, she tendered to the conductor such ticket for the purpose of securing her said passage on said train, whereupon said conductor refused to receive same, and thereupon “she offered to the conductor in charge of said train, whose duty it was…