Yazoo & M. v. R. Co. v. Mullen

The appellee, M. L. Mullen, Jr., by his father and next friend, instituted this suit against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, seeking to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by him by reason of being ejected from a passenger train of the appellant company, and, from a verdict and judgment for three thousand dollars, this appeal was prosecuted.

The declaration alleged, in substance, that on or about the 14th day of July, 1927, the appellee purchased a ticket entitling him to through passage over the railroad lines of the appellant from Shreveport, Louisiana, to…