Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Rodgers
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Sharkey county. How. George Anderson, Judge. Rogers, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the case.
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From the circuit court of Sharkey county. How. George Anderson, Judge. Rogers, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the case. The plaintiff claimed that there was a special contract which entitled him to return on any regular train of the defendant, including train No. 6. This statement is contradicted by the station agent, who testifies the contract was to return on any local train. No. 6 was shown by the defendant’s witnesses not to…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
William Rodgers, residing at Egremont, bought there in March, 1898, an excursion ticket to attend Mardi Qras at Vicksburg and return. At. midnight of the second day he applied to Conductor Howard, of No. 6 (a'fast train, not scheduled to stop at Egremont), for return passage, and said conductor refused to take -him, because his train was not scheduled to stop at Egremont. Rodgers returned home the- next day upon his round-trip ticket, and sued -the defendant company, and, -by a peremptory instruction, recovered $250, from which judgment the company appeals.
As a predicate for his recovery, he…
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