Great Western Railway Co. v. Miller
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. Action on tbe case for damages occasioned by tbe expulsion of tbe plaintiff below, from the cars of tbe defendants, at a point between Chatham and Belle River in Canada. Plea, tbe general issue. A verdict was rendered for tbe plaintiff of $3,000; and tbe judgment entered thereon is brought into this court by writ of error.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. Action on tbe case for damages occasioned by tbe expulsion of tbe plaintiff below, from the cars of tbe defendants, at a point between Chatham and Belle River in Canada. Plea, tbe general issue. A verdict was rendered for tbe plaintiff of $3,000; and tbe judgment entered thereon is brought into this court by writ of error. Tbe errors assigned are: 1. Tbe Court erred in taking and exercising jurisdiction over tbe defendants, a foreign corporation, and in giving judgment against them in favor of a resident of Canada, a foreign province, for an alleged tort committed in…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.
Miller sued the Kailway Company for damages on account of his expulsion from their cars, which he averred to have been done ' at a distance from any dwelling or usual stopping place. All of the counts in the declaration alleged him to have been a passenger who had complied *313with all the conditions required to entitle him to be carried to end of his journey.
He stated on the trial that he then resided in Chatham, Ontario ; but in answer to an inquiry whether he was a citizen of Canada, said-he was a native of Michigan and a citizen, as he supposed.
A statute of Canada was given in…
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