Legal Opinion
Godfrey v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co.
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided October 9, 1888No. 13,336PublishedCited by 15 opinions
From the Jackson Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchele, J.
Godfrey sued the railroad company to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by him in being wrongfully ejected by the company’s servants from one of its passenger trains upon which he had taken passage.
The complaint is in two paragraphs, both of which are substantially alike, except that it is averred in the second paragraph that the railroad was being operated by a receiver at the time the plaintiff purchased the ticket upon which he claimed the right to be carried, and that although the railroad company was operating its road when the plaintiff presented the ticket and claimed the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Lake Erie & Western Railway Co. v. FixIndiana Supreme Court · 1882
- Bradshaw v. South Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Ohio & Mississippi Railroad v. DavisIndiana Supreme Court · 1864
- Bell v. Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette RailroadIndiana Supreme Court · 1876
- State v. Wabash Railway Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1888
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Pennsylvania Co. v. BrayIndiana Supreme Court · 1890
- Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Bondurant's AdministratorSupreme Court of Virginia · 1907
- Fitzmaurice v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh Railroad v. GrahamIndiana Court of Appeals · 1891
- Memphis & C. R. v. HoechnerCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895
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