Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mitchell

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

Affirming.

On April 9, 1913, the appellant furnished Mitchell, the appellee, a box car in which to remove his household effects and personal property from Barbourville, in Knox county, to Point Levell, in Garrard county. Mitchell paid $38.00 for the use of the ear, and was required to buy a passenger’s ticket, although he rode in the ear which was loaded with his household effects, farming implements, kitchen and dining-room furniture, some lumber, four pigs in a crate, and five head of cattle and a calf fenced off in one end of the car.

The car thus…