Baltimore & Ohio R. R. v. Brant

Appellee, Brant, brought the present suit against the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad Company before a justice of the peace, to recover damages for an alleged breach of a contract to furnish free passes for himself and his wife from Chicago to Baltimore and return. He recovered a judgment before the justice of the peace, as also in the superior court on appeal, for §94.23, and the railroad company bring the case here for review.

It appears from the bill of exceptions that in 1882, when settling a litigation between Brant and the railroad company, the latter, in part consideration for the…