Cook v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

It appears without controversy that plaintiff, being at La Porte, a station on defendant’s line of railway in Elack Hawk county, Iowa, purchased and paid for a ticket entitling him to a passage to St. Paul, Minn.; that he did not use said ticket, and within two or three days thereafter presented it to the defendant’s agent at the station in La Porte and demanded redemption thereof, which was refused. Upon this showing, judgment is demanded against the defendant for the amount of money paid for the ticket and for the statutory penalty.

That plaintiff thus made a case bringing him within the…