Livingston v. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co.

FRANKLIN E. KENNAMER, District Judge.

The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained as a result of defendant’s negligence. None of its tracks run through or into the State of Oklahoma. For the purpose of soliciting freight and passenger traffic, defendant employed an agent and rented an office at Tulsa, Okl. The business of this agent was to procure passengers and freight to be transported over defendant’s lines. If a passenger desired a ticket and applied for one, the agent took the applicant’s money and procured from some railroad running into…