Johnson City Transit Co. v. Hall

This suit was instituted before a Justice of the Peace in a plea of damages growing out of a breach of contract of carriage by the ejection of the plaintiff from the bus of the defendant, while a fare-paying patron, “without any excuse or cause, exposing the plaintiff to the freezing cold in his sick and weakened condition, to his damage in the sum of $400.” A judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff and an appeal prosecuted to the Circuit Court, where the case was heard before the court and a jury. The jury returned a verdict of $250 in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant…