St. Louis & South-Eastern Railway Co. v. Myrtle

This was an action by the appellee to ■recover damages for an alleged injury and ejectment from the cars of the appellant, in August, 1873, at Mount Vernon.

The complaint is in two paragraphs. The first paragraph alleges that it was a rule of the company not to permit passengers to travel on freight trains without tickets, and at the time mentioned plaintiff entered the ears of the company, but was unable to first procure a ticket, because the ticket office of the company was not open on this occasion before the train passed; that, upon his failure to furnish a ticket, he tendered his fare to…