Romine v. Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad

The appellant brought his action to recover damages for a personal injury suffered by -him, while a passenger on appellee’s railway train, through the alleged negligence of the appellee, without the appellant’s fault. At the conclusion of the evidence, the court, upon the appellee’s motion caused the jury to return a verdict for the appellee.

The evidence showed that the appellant, having a ticket for passage from Sullivan to Earmersburg, on appellee’s railway, which had been sold to him by appellee’s agent, entered the rear car of a passenger train going north on said railway at Sullivan, and…