Gulf, M. N.R. Co. v. Mason

Lizzie Mason, plaintiff in the court below, brought suit in the circuit court of Lawrence county for damages alleged to have been sustained by her by reason of being ejected from one of the passenger trains of the company. The declaration and proof show that she purchased a ticket from Monticello', in Lawrence county, Mississippi, to New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, and boarded the train at Monticello, Mississippi. When tbe conductor came through to collect the fares, the plaintiff was unable to produce her ticket, although she, in fact, had purchased a ticket and had it in her…