Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Dewin

This was an action brought in the name of Stephen Dewin, a child twenty-seven months old, by James Dewin, his next friend, against the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Company, to recover damages for being expelled from one of the passenger trains of the company at Washington, Indiana, on February 11, 1875.

The company was operating a road from Chicago to Richmond, Indiana. At the latter place James Dewin, his wife, and six children came upon the train, on their way to Chicago. The oldest child was fifteen years of age; the second one, ten; the third one, eight; the fourth, six;…