Southern Ry. v. Hawkins
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 52 — ACTION' BY W. A. HAWKINS, BY NEXT FRIEND, AGAINST THE SOUTHERN RY. CO. IN KY. FOR DAMAGES FOR BEING WRONGFULLY EJECTED FROM ITS PASSENGER TRAIN. Appeal from Mercer Circuit Court . W. W. Stephenson, Special Judge. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appeals. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. 1. The verdict is excessive. (M. & O. R. R. Co. v. Reeves, 25 Ky. Law Rep., 2239; Annie L. Sloane v. Southern California Ry.
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Case 52 — ACTION' BY W. A. HAWKINS, BY NEXT FRIEND, AGAINST THE SOUTHERN RY. CO. IN KY. FOR DAMAGES FOR BEING WRONGFULLY EJECTED FROM ITS PASSENGER TRAIN. Appeal from Mercer Circuit Court . W. W. Stephenson, Special Judge. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appeals. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. 1. The verdict is excessive. (M. & O. R. R. Co. v. Reeves, 25 Ky. Law Rep., 2239; Annie L. Sloane v. Southern California Ry. Co., Ill Cal., 220, 44 Pac., 320, 32 L. R. A., 193; Howe v. Gibson, 3 Tex. Civ. Ap., 263, 22 S. W., 826; L. & N. R. R. Co. v. Blair, 104 Tenn., 112, 55 S. W., 154; Georgia R. R. and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge Settle
Reversing.
*417The appellee, W. A. Hawkins, twenty years of age, by D. B. Hawkins, his next friend, sued the appellant railroad company for his alleged wrongful ejection by the conductor from one of its passenger trains upon which he was attempting to ride from Harrods-burg to McBrayer, a distance of about fifteen miles. The facts alleged in the petition as constituting his cause of action are that on Sunday evening, September 14, 1902, he purchased of appellant’s ticket agent at McBrayer, and paid for, a round-trip ticket which entitled him to ride as a passenger on…
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