Kinchlow v. Peoples Rapid Transit Co.

This is an appeal by Mamie Kinchlow (colored), plaintiff below, from a judgment upon a directed verdict in favor of the defendants, in an action brought by her to recover damages because of her ejection from a bus, while in the State of Virginia, on which she was traveling from the city of New York to Norfolk, Va.

The declaration contained three counts, charging: First, a breach of a contract of carriage; second, a wrongful ejection from the bus; and, third, false imprisonment, alleging that the plaintiff’s ejection from the bus was upon the order and at the request of the driver of the bus,…