Bader v. Southern Pacific Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

MoNKOE, J.

Plaintiff claims $5,000 as damages, actual and exemplary, said to have been sustained by reason of his alleged forcible and unlawful ejection from a passenger train.

Defendant pleads the general denial.

We find the following facts to be sustained by a preponderance of evidence and probability, to-wit:

Plaintiff, who was about sixty-three years old, bought a ticket from New Orleans to Lafayette, intending to go from there, by private conveyance, to Breaux Bridge, there, to spend the summer among his family connections and ply his trade of…