St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Hatch

Mrs. Hatch, one of the defendants in error, accompanied by three small children, the oldest of them being only five years of age, took passage on a train of the railway company, named above as one of the plaintiffs in error, at Houston, Texas, to make the journey from that point to Memphis, Tennessee. Having a ticket not *583only of the railway company, bnt of the Pullman Company, she took passage in a car of the latter company, constituting a part of the train on which she was a passenger. Her route carried her through Texarkana, Arkansas, which point she reached about ten o’clock at night.…