Jevons v. Union Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J. :

Inez Jevons sued the Union Pacific Railroad Company for damages arising from her ejection from one of defendant’s trains. A demurrer to the plaintiff’s evidence was overruled, but after the evidence of both parties had been received the court peremptorily directed a verdict for the defendant, upon *492which judgment was rendered, from which the plaintiff now prosecutes error.

The evidence in behalf of the plaintiff was to this effect: On July 9, 1900, her father, W. P. Gates, applied to defendant’s ticket agent at Wakefield for two tickets from…